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“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Children Reason Feelings Suffering Imagination Ignorance Degrees Adults Capacity Conviction Intense Helplessness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)

“Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.”

Doe Today Faces Challenges Fields Students Ignorance Capacity Educational Daily Life Grit Impart Education Today

Author:Sai Baba

“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

“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

Sometimes Feelings Joy Peace Compassion Ignorance Forgiveness Capacity Skins Kindness And Compassion Peace And Joy Compassion For Yourself

Author:Frederick Buechner

“That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.”

Men Should Dies Knowledge Ignorance Capacity Tragedy Ignorant One Man

Book:Sartor Resartus

Source: Sartor Resartus

“I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability. Perfect knowledge alone can give certainty, and in nature perfect knowledge would be infinite knowledge, which is clearly beyond our capacities. We have, therefore, to content ourselves with partial knowledge - knowledge mingled with ignorance, producing doubt.”

Giving Would Be Science Sound Ability Perfect Knowledge Doubt Impossible Ignorance Theory Capacity Infinite Method Convinced Certainty Probability Infinite Knowledge

Author:William Stanley Jevons