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“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.”

Believe Self Attitude Ignorance Musician Tradition Arise Opinionated Pedantic Unsympathetic

Author:Ralph Vaughan Williams

“Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”

Ignorance Arise Probability Fractions

Book:The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

Source: The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

“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.”

Principles Ignorance Vices Arise Modest Deceived Demeanor Bashful Bashfulness

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”

Men May Matter Form Conditions Ignorance No Matter What Species Arise Horrible

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.”

Mind Humans Natural Ignorance Authority Constitution Prejudice Accidents Arise Human Mind Vulgar

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”

“Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.”

Self States Ignorance Aspect Arise Hinduism Snakes Rope Phenomenal Transient Owing

Author:Guru Nanak

“... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”

Problem Left Knowing Ignorance Behavior Shame Arise Not Knowing Irrational Vacuums Mind Blowing

Book:The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

Source: The Sky is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

“These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you are - but you yourself are completely oblivious of your transcendence, of your real nature, of your authentic being. This is the only sadness in life. You can find many excuses, but the real sadness is this: you don't know who you are. How can a person be happy not knowing who he is, not knowing from where he comes, not knowing where he is going? A thousand and one problems arise because of this basic self-ignorance.”

Knows May Persons Two Real Self Problem Situation Knowing Sadness Ignorance Thousand Who You Are Excuse Arise Not Knowing Transcendence Oblivious

Author:Rajneesh

“Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause, or when the cause of the particular effect is one that exceeds his power of understanding. Hence, wonder is a cause of pleasure insofar as there is annexed the hope of attaining understanding of that which one wants to know. ... For desire is especially aroused by the awareness of ignorance, and consequently a man takes the greatest pleasure in those things which he discovers for himself or learns from the ground up.”