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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
light white people
I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight. Carol Leifer
light childhood certain
Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . . Carol Shields
light movement said
nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music Carol Shields
light paul-scholes scholes
Playing with Paul Scholes is like playing with the light on. Carlos Queiroz
light
We have a solar-powered light in there so that at night, in Bandon, you can see it blinking. But it's just for aesthetics. Reg Pullen
lighten skill whenever
Whenever you get any new skill you really want to use it. I think he should lighten up a little. Lauren Brightwell
lights school slow
When you see a school bus, you got to think children. Even if the lights are not flashing, you got to slow down. Richard Dormer
light law justice
There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. Aaron Swartz
light important shadow
The shadows are as important as the light. Charlotte Bronte
history morality interest
History is not written in the interests of morality. Agnes Repplier
history favors may
History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised. Agnes Repplier
history fluid ifs
If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. Agnes Repplier
history action function
Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one. Charles de Gaulle
history simply
The history of storytelling isn't one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo. Therese Fowler
history men mystique pure ring tradition
There will always be something about two men in the ring - a mystique because it's pure man-to-man competition. Because of the history boxing has and the tradition it holds, boxing will always have a that mystique. Sugar Ray Leonard
history lies people primitive rarely
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe. Ashwin Sanghi
history indicate people time
When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted nothing to indicate where they are or what time it is, to place them anywhere. Toyin Odutola
history known worth year
What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other. Thomas Starr King