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ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
ignorance atheism patterns
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. Richard Rohr
ignorance might bliss
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. Robyn Carr
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour. Samuel Johnson
ignorance men joy
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. Robert Staughton Lynd
ignorance doe economics
Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? Robert Solow
ignorance men hands
It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves. Robert Owen
ignorance class use
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:1st - When they are neglected in infancy2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour
names evil nations
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
names kind stage
I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of. Rick James
names effort doctrine
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Virchand Gandhi
names want trouble
Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around. Woody Allen
names nuance film
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
names use firsts
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.] William Whewell
names i-am-thankful obnoxious
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun. William Shenstone
names
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! William Shatner
names world way
The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong. William James
warning insufferable walks
Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow. Libba Bray
warning wake-up climate-change
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them. Bill McKibben
warning trampolines warning-signs
There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline. Chelsea Handler
warning politician cigarette
Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads? Tim O'Brien
warning world united-states
The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world. Lydia M. Child
warning stage figures
I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures. George Bernard Shaw
warning canaries mines
Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come. Galway Kinnell
warning young crisis
The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening. J. William Fulbright