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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
discovery led perspective
Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side. Jim Fox
discovery alternatives may
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding oneself in one of life's critical situations need not after all respond in one of the traditional ways. No. One may simply default. Pass. Do as one pleases, shrug, turn on one's heel and leave. Exit. Why after all need one act humanly? Walker Percy
discovery errors joy
Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon
discovery justice honor
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. Winston Churchill
discovery order giving
The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike. Jacob Bronowski
discovery atoms facts
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. Johannes Stark
discovery magic religion
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work. James Randi
discovery our-world support
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives. Lamar S. Smith
discovery self competition
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information Friedrich August von Hayek
imagination knowledge
Knowledge is limited; but imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
imagination
'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series. Kate Winslet
imagination needs terrible
What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket. Richard P. Feynman
imagination profound suffering
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. Rob Bell
imagination religion poetic
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. Richard Dawkins
imagination acting stills
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that Robin Wright
imagination rooms
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination. Robert Rauschenberg
imagination world vapid
Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail. Wallace Stevens
imagination
Imagination is the will of things. . . .