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“The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.”

Country Greater Ignorance Politician Prison Lawyer Inmates

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

Work Education Talking Liberty Greater Ignorance Failure Ignorant Live Life Poor Richard Blockheads Being Ignorant

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.”

Sound Greater Ignorance Empty Vessel Conceit Barrels Empty Vessels

Book:John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

Source: John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition

“There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.”

Culture Wealth Poverty Support Greater Ignorance Heritage Consultation Wealth Of Knowledge

Author:Ali ibn Abi Talib

“Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made life be And since it made life be It is greater than life And since it let extinction be It is greater than extinction. I commune with feelings more than prayer”

Feels Made Sometimes Feelings Life Is Force Prayer Greater Ignorance Instinct Invisible Intuitive Extinction Invincible Communes

Book:The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: The Immeasurable Equation: The Collected Poetry and Prose

“As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.”

Giving Humans May Light Stars Knowing Greater Ignorance Moon Bible Scripture Ignorant Spots Luminous

Author:Robert Boyle

“There is no sin greater than ignorance.”

Sin Greater Ignorance

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Those of us forced to read the London papers sometimes speculate about which is greater: the average British hack's sloth, mendacity, ignorance, obsequiousness, capacity for drink, or aversion to paying for that drink. Smart money tends to split between the latter two.”

Two Sometimes Greater Ignorance Drink Paper Smart Capacity Average British London Journalist Latter Splits Papers Sloth Aversion Hacks Mendacity Smart Money Obsequiousness

Author:Larry King

“All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.”

Men Culture Term Wealth Effort Poverty Virtue Greater Ignorance Disease Degrees Labor Increase Instinct Hunger Vices Impulse Leisure Wealth And Poverty

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.”

Men Facts Known Greater Ignorance Beneficial Zealous Searchers

Author:Nicholas of Cusa

“Philosopher Bertrand Russell suggested that 'Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.' And, it was Albert Einstein who explained, 'Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' So which is it - stupidity, ignorance or insanity - that explains the behavior of my fellow Americans who call for greater government involvement in our lives?”

Source: American Contempt for Liberty

“Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.”

Knows Sin Numbers Responsibility Cases Greater Failing Ignorance Ought Conscience Excuse Stupidity Likes Obligation Deliberation Incomprehension

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938