All Quotes By Tag: Ignorance

“all appears to change when we change”

“originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

“The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)”

“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”

“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”

“It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.”

“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil — or else an absolute ignorance.”

“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”

“A knavish speech sleeps in a fool’s ear.”