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ignorance sarcasm
His ignorance is encyclopedic. Abba Eban
ignorance progress too-much
Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence. Charles Sumner
ignorance doe generations
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. Charles Dudley Warner
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.
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.
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.
ignorance pedants disgusting
Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.
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.
simplicity quality enthusiasm
Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm. Agnes Repplier
simplicity approach
Simplicity of approach is always best. Charlie Chaplin
simplicity achieve difficult
Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.
simplicity mind states
Simplicity is a state of mind. Charles Wagner
simplicity action tendencies
Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness. Brian Weiss
simplicity complexity grows
Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity. Brian Eno
simplicity complexity optimal
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity David Allen
simplicity consistency complicated
History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency. Jared Diamond
simplicity poverty
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. Alan Watts
laziness youth tricks
it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. Jane Austen
laziness habit familiar
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Jane Hirshfield
laziness fatigue
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. Charles Spurgeon
laziness poverty slowly soon travels
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. Benjamin Franklin
laziness domain familiar
Cliché activates the comfortable mental laziness, we sort of revert to the domain of the already-familiar, what we have already imagined so that it doesn't seem that bad. Aleksandar Hemon
laziness built
Laziness is built deep into our nature. Daniel Kahneman
laziness weak-spots cookies
My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants. Anthony Hopkins
laziness ends
Better never begin than never make an end. George Herbert
laziness journalism incompetence
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence. Kingsley Amis