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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
vanity funeral world
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
vanity variation lord
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. Charles Spurgeon
vanity sin favourite
Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino
vanity sin my-favorite
Vanity: my favorite sin. Al Pacino
vanity favors persons
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. William Shakespeare
vanity glasses mouths
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. William Shakespeare
vanity self missing
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. Edith Wharton
vanity weight nests
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Edith Wharton
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. Charles Caleb Colton
stupidity mind demand
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Alan Bradley
stupidity bed loud
I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. David Sedaris
stupidity glorification
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. Carl Sagan
stupidity causes reputation
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Kurt Vonnegut
stupidity profit made
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. David Ricardo
stupidity wickedness imbeciles
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. David Hume
stupidity opponents
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. Barney Frank
stupidity latter workers
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht