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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
curiosity education entirely holy methods miracle modern short strangled
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein
curiosity needs obscurity
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric. Samuel Beckett
curiosity welcome moments
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have. Pema Chodron
curiosity irrepressible
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear. Haruki Murakami
curiosity wonder staring
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. Henry James
curiosity living man proverbs satisfy
A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverbs
curiosity leisure example
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person David Hume
curiosity factor looks seen
We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.
curiosity entering edges
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. Charles Henry Parkhurst
ridiculous
The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'
ridiculous fortunate
I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous. Norman Reedus
ridiculous shows stuff worry
It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows (the Marlins) don't know anything about the game. Brad Penny
ridiculous boring
It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring. Marilyn Monroe
ridiculous amount refining
I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it. David Pogue
ridiculous affection fantastic
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious. Robert Blair
ridiculous extremes
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. Roy Hattersley
ridiculous sublime
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon Bonaparte
ridiculous certain mankind
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, Eugene Ionesco