Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abba Eban

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

Charles Sumner

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 Dudley Warner

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Caleb Colton

The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Charles Caleb Colton

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Travis Bradberry

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Sathya Baba

Secure spiritual bliss first and then try to convey it to those who thirst. When the tank is dry, how can the taps give water?

Granth Sahib

Through devotional worship of the Lord, liberation and bliss are obtained.

Bethany Mota

I love cleansing my face in the mornings and at night using Bliss Foaming Facial Wash. It makes my skin feel soft, and the refreshing smell always wakes me up.

L.A. Weatherly

It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.

Sandra Tsing Loh

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

Patanjali

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

Sathya Baba

When you see the world with the eye of divine bliss, you will find bliss everywhere.

Jez Butterworth

I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Bess Truman

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

Kurt Vonnegut

How embarrassing it is to be human.

Carl T. Rowan

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

Carl T. Rowan

There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.

Aldous Huxley

It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

Daniel Clowes

I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.

Dakota Fanning

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

Jurgen Habermas

A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

Mircea Eliade

It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.