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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 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
ignorance prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men law finals
Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good Baruch Spinoza
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
men doctrine aliens
There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector Augustine Birrell
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
profound crowds obscure
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. Friedrich Nietzsche
profound growing needs
Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
profound delicacy ends
In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare.
profound way ridiculous
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous. Galway Kinnell
profound found profound-truth
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. J. Robert Oppenheimer
profound cages sound
Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound John Betjeman
profound saying utterly
What he was saying was utterly profound in some regards.
profoundly
I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. Otto Hahn