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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. 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
cutting giving people
Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people. Carol Moseley Braun
cutting hair tiny
I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair. Carol Vorderman
cutting way woods
The wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way. Carl Andre
cutting tasks three
For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. C. S. Lewis
cutting two coward
And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going. C. S. Lewis
cutting hair people
I made a braid because Chinese old people, they say that the God will take you by the hair to join you with - but God didn't take me, so I cut the braid. Agnes Varda
cutting dollars needs
There's a need to reform Medicare, but not a need to cut a half trillion dollars out of Medicare. Charlie Dent
cutting thinking people
I wouldn't like to live in a world where everything's as cut-and-dried as most people think it is Charles de Lint
cutting desert forests
You've got to spread out as far as you can, cut down a whole forest, irrigate a whole desert, just to make sure that you won't accidentally stumble upon a place that's still in its natural state. Charles de Lint
science ideas may
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality. Carl Friedrich Gauss
science hands people
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true of every exclusive occupation. Likewise a mere linguist, a mere jurist, a mere soldier, a mere merchant, and so forth. One could add such idle chatter that when a certain exclusive occupation is often connected with certain specific shortcomings, it is on the other hand always free of certain other shortcomings. Carl Friedrich Gauss
science three newton
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. Carl Friedrich Gauss
science dwarves everyday
We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings. Alan Stern
science ideas perception
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming. Alan Turing
science religion boundaries
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. Alan Turing
science light candle
Why don't you light that candle ? Alan Shepard
science uniforms taste
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied. Charles Caleb Colton
science disorder cures
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty. Charles Caleb Colton