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ignorance pride whole-family
The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance errors steps
Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance pride thinking
It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance vices principles
Women who are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanor which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance knowledge men
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
ignorance sky knowing
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? Alan Watts
ignorance reality expectations
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
long vengeance retribution
Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule. Charles Dickens
long wit long-time
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up. Charles Dickens
long trials hardship
You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope. Charles Stanley
long might serving-god
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might. Charles Spurgeon
long people giving
I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one. Charles Spurgeon
long eternity endless
Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless! Charles Spurgeon
long doe christ
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet. Charles Spurgeon
long care doe
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there. Charles Spurgeon
long effort mind
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen. Alan Watts
curiosity wonder habit
Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit. Chip Conley
curiosity cabbage want
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know. David McCullough
curiosity factor looks seen
We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone. Marc Berman
curiosity causes assumption
Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change. Charles Lyell
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 entering edges
Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. Charles Henry Parkhurst
curiosity looks hearing
I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie. Don Cheadle
curiosity littles way
We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science. Jamie Hyneman
curiosity entered longer moment overcame truth
When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear. Daniel Cohen