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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 prejudice
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. Denis Diderot
ignorance dignity mask
Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance. Elbert Hubbard
ignorance home america
The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. Elbert Hubbard
ignorance thinking government
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist. Adolf Hitler
ignorance justice ignorant
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley
ignorance responsibility numbers
Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do. Aldous Huxley
ignorance home journey
So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced. Aldous Huxley
ignorance poverty wealth
No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance Ali ibn Abi Talib
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 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. Baruch Spinoza
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. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. Augustus Hare
men thinking principles
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. 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. Friedrich Nietzsche
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
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 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. Steve Crump
profoundly
I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset. Otto Hahn