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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 society may
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal. Robert Owen
ignorance men fire-burning
For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away. Robert Penn Warren
miracle rest-of-your-life wells
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? Walker Percy
miracle lovely gone
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... William Butler Yeats
miracle lasts mysterious
We have at last ascertained that miracles can be perfectly understood; that there is nothing mysterious about them; that they are simply transparent falsehoods. Robert Green Ingersoll
miracle mystery priests
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.
miracle life-is moments
Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring. Yoko Ono
miracle
I really didn't think we were going to get out of there alive. It really was a miracle from God. Deborah Williams
miracle belief
Miracles seldom occur in the lives of those who do not consider them possible. Neale Donald Walsch
miracle doe crowds
He who will please the crowd and for the sake of the most ephemeral renown will either proclaim those things which nature does not display or even will publish genuine miracles of nature without regard to deeper causes is a spiritually corrupt person... With the best of intentions I publicly speak to the crowd (which is eager for things new) on the subject of what is to come. Johannes Kepler
miracle intuition atheism
When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it. John Adams
agnostics atheists christians pens taking
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.