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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.
carpe-diem pact carpe
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn. Edmund Burke
carpe-diem looks situation
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it. Brian Tracy
carpe-diem wasting-time remember
When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. Aiden Wilson Tozer
carpe-diem men lazy
The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep. Aristotle
carpe-diem anxiety alarms
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read. Abraham Lincoln
carpe-diem kind public-service
Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary. Albert Schweitzer
carpe-diem perfection genius
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Arthur Koestler
carpe-diem bombs window
The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. Arthur Miller
carpe-diem should-have should
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. Alan Cumming
encyclopedia-britannica usual favourite
When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.) Neil Gaiman