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wise mother jobs
My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy. Brandon Lee
wise wisdom circles
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. C. S. Lewis
wise home men
There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. Charles Churchill
wise believe men
A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in." Jane Addams
wise has-beens merry
I would much rather have been merry than wise. Jane Austen
wise fashion knowledge
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. Baltasar Gracian
wise wisdom character
The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.
wise skills luck
There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
wise mistake men
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have made, while fools make them public. Reputation depends more on what is hidden than on what is seen. If you can’t be good, be careful.
ignorance giving advice
Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices. Benito Mussolini
ignorance circles drawing
So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently. Jane Goodall
ignorance rights law
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle. Calvin Coolidge
ignorance media television
These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance. Alain Badiou
ignorance law profound
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! Charles Darwin
ignorance numbers issues
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live. Vandana Shiva
ignorance hands evil
She sits before me, sullen but hopeful, characterless, about to dissolve into tears. I squeeze her hand back, moved, no, touched by her ignorance of evil. She has one more test to pass. Do you own a briefcase?” I ask her, swallowing. Bret Easton Ellis
ignorance vanity causes
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. Blaise Pascal
ignorance thinking want
I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out. Billy Bob Thornton
knowledge neurosis use
The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis. Arthur Adamov
knowledge technology practice
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. Anton Chekhov
knowledge delay height
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn. Desiderius Erasmus
knowledge reflection half
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. Alexander Pope
knowledge library way
A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Daniel Dennett
knowledge learning roots
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way. Confucius
knowledge-and-power information-knowledge people
Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people. Tom Clancy
knowledge penetration knows
Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this. Victor Hugo
knowledge winter thinking
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird. Stephen Vincent Benet