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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.
ignorance dwelling-place darkness
Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty. Charles Spurgeon
ignorance sky knowing
The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong? Alan Watts
ignorance reality expectations
Regulators have not been able to achieve the level of future clarity required to act pre-emptively. The problem is not lack of regulation but unrealistic expectations. What we confront in reality is uncertainty, some of it frighteningly so ... Alan Greenspan
proportion
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists. Austin O'Malley
proportion
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. Alice James
proportion humour
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Khalil Gibran
proportion realised
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi
proportion music-is whole
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
proportion wells traveller
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. Henry Fielding
proportion free-time direct
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap
proportion reached traffic volume
The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.
insolence wit wells
Wit is well-bred insolence. Aristotle
insolence learn
He has to learn that petulance is no sarcasm, and that insolence is not invective Benjamin Disraeli