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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 self essence
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
ignorance democracy rulership
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
ignorance opinion bernard-shaw
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Roger Scruton
ignorance moral splendid
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. Robert Wright
atheism world may
We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way. William Howard Taft
atheism positive-atheism
What can I hope when all is right? Voltaire
atheism today firsts
Today, the religion clauses of the First Amendment do not need to be fixed; they need to be followed. Walter F. Mondale
atheism malice preaching
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. John Adams
atheism thrive
Atheism thrives on bad religion. Os Guinness
atheism disaster proportion
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions. Orlando Bloom
atheism fool rewards
Fools, your reward is neither here nor there. Omar Khayyam
atheism retreat catholicism
Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat. Emile Zola
atheism ghost holy
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. Emile M. Cioran
pockets journalism seems
More and more, journalism seems to have hopped out of Truth's pocket and crept into another. Henry Rollins
pockets frightened terrified
I am frightened of nothing." "Nothing?" "Nothing." "Are you extremely frightened of nothing?" "Absolutely terrified of it." "I have nothing in my pockets. Would you like to see it?" "No, I most definitely would not. Neil Gaiman
pockets useful
Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants. Mark Latham
pockets patents rail
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had. George Stephenson
pockets want
Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own? Billy Graham
pockets may frogs
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun. Dan Rather