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ignorance vices principles
Charles Caleb Colton Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Charles Caleb Colton Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
ignorance knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Charles Spurgeon Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.
ignorance reality expectations
Alan Greenspan Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ...
ignorance
Alan Greenspan Greenspan, who knew so much more than most, knew far less than most supposed ...
ignorance long curiosity
Alan Alda My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
ignorance long-ago giving
Aiden Wilson Tozer For myself, I long ago decided that I would rather know the truth than be happy in ignorance. If I can not have both truth and happiness, give me truth. We’ll have a long time to be happy in heaven.
men listening wish
Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Charles Dickens Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
Charles Dickens The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
Charles Dickens It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
Charles Dickens When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Charles Dickens Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
Charles Caleb Colton When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
Charles Caleb Colton No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
errors mad void
Charles Stross Like the famous mad philosopher said, when you stare into the void, the void stares also; but if you cast into the void, you get a type conversion error. (Which just goes to show Nietzsche wasn't a C++ programmer.)
errors events chance
Charles Spurgeon You say, 'On the off chance that I had somewhat more, I ought to be exceptionally fulfilled.' You commit an error. On the off chance that you are not content with what you have, you would not be fulfilled in the event that it were multiplied.
errors needs done
Charles Spurgeon If a crooked stick is before you, you need not explain how crooked it is. Lay a straight one down by the side of it, and the work is well done. Preach the truth, and error will stand abashed in its presence.
errors useless repentance
Edward Gibbon Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.
errors political demand
David Ricardo The opinions that the price of commodities depends solely on the proportion of supply and demand, or demand to supply, has become almost an axiom in political economy, and has been the source of much error in that science.
errors accountability criticism
David Brin Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.
errors answers may
Benjamin Robbins Curtis No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
errors vagueness belief
Bertrand Russell None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
errors reform cost
Carlos Mesa The cost of pension reforms has been perhaps the biggest error committed in the process of modernizing Bolivia's economy.