All Quotes By Tag: Ignorance
“Anyone with half a mind could see that,” said Tiffany.Miss Tick sighed. “Yes. But sometimes it’s so hard to find half a mind when you need one.”
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“Ignorance is the prison that most people are kept in”
“There are those who know and those who don’t know. And for every ten thousand who don’t know there’s only one who knows. That’s the miracle of all time–the fact that these millions know so much but don’t know this.”
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“Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy”
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“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses – mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds – without knowing why – and had given her his hand.”
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“originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.”
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“all appears to change when we change”
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“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”
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“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
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“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”
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“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)”
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“Empathy nurtures wisdom. Apathy cultivates ignorance.”
“Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.”
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“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”