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ignorance knowing sake
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake. B. F. Skinner
ignorance patriotic simple
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. Bernie Taupin
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
ignorance hands support
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Bertrand Russell
ignorance mystery delightful
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
ignorance ignorant depth
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
ignorance religion tyranny
...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... Benjamin Franklin
ignorance moon night star
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star Confucius
ignorance moon night
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
views law may
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes. Barry Lopez
views practice together
In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible for what he does and justly punished if he offends. That view, together with its associated practices, must be re-examined when a scientific analysis reveals unsuspected controlling relations between behavior and environment.
views sky limits
Used to tell me the sky's the limit, now the sky is our point of view. Big Sean
views ideas political
I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values. Antoni Tapies
views months compromise
A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise. Bill Vaughan
views law two
In my view there are basically two types of weddings. There is the wedding that is based on law, and there is the wedding that is based on Christ and based on grace. We felt that those who have been married by the law, they would like to have that special privilege and benefit by being married by the church.
views other-worlds earth
But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human.
views income carbon
There are skeptics who do not come to their view because they have a source of income from carbon polluters. Al Gore
views long special
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Charles Darwin
essentials cigarette accepting
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential. Charles Kennedy
essentials maybe music nobody tap taught
Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way. Tom Wolfe
essentials said
Only what is essential must be said. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
essentials features productive
Playfullness is the essential feature of productive thought. Albert Einstein
essentials mystery grandeur
Nature conceals her mystery by her essential grandeur.
essentials would-be federalism
To attach full confidence to an institution of this nature, it appears to be an essential ingredient in its structure, that it shall be under private and not a public direction-under the guidance of individual interest, not of public policy; which, would be . . . liable to being too much influenced by public necessity. Alexander Hamilton
essentials female states
The National Socialist state refuses to admit female labour in factories merely because such labour is cheap. There is, of course, a certain amount of industrial work which can only be performed by women, but an essential condition is that this sort of work should not be injurious to health. Adolf Hitler
essentials banking finance
I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good. Adam McKay
essentials minimum completing
One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation. Ada Lovelace