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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”

Character Wisdom Virtue Honesty Ignorance Integrity Temples Doorstep Knowledge And Wisdom Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”

“Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order for "rational" is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression.”

Men Reason Character Action Order Force Ignorance Destruction Rational Oppression Irrational Behalf Brutality Thoughts And Actions

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“Towards orthodox religion, father's own attitude remained one of tolerance. He looked upon the New Testament as the noble story of a human being which, because of ignorance and the lack of printing presses, had become exaggerated. He maintained that religions served their purpose; some people depended on them all their lives to make them honest. Others did not need to be so held in line. But subjection to any church was a reflection on strength and character. You should be able to get from yourself what you had to go go church for.”

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.”

Soul Character Effects Ignorance Duty Vices Stupidity Vanity Contempt Distraction Laziness Incivility

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.”

Source: Irish eloquence: The speeches of the celebrated Irish orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan

“Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.”

Source: Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity

“We are born with a potential for good character - and for the dispositions and habits that make up bad or weak character. Because we are born in ignorance of moral ideals, however, we must be instructed or trained if we are to achieve a good second nature.”

Ifs Character Born Moral Achieve Ignorance Habit Ideals Weak Disposition Good Character Weak Character

Book:Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

Source: Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing

“One of the favorite games I play, when I improv or take on a character, is what I like to call arrogant ignorance. That's the game I enjoy playing most.”

Play Character Games Enjoy Ignorance Arrogant

Author:Rob Riggle

“My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - something by definition incompatible with art.”

Art Whole Character Artist Ignorance Definitions Zone Impotence

Author:Samuel Beckett

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.”

Character Difficult Sea Rocks Ignorance Reputation Bark

Author:Petrarch

“The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.”

Character Ignorance Pride Vanity Arrogance Truest Ignorance Is Bliss Vanity And Pride Pride And Arrogance

Book:The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose

Source: The genuine poetical remains of Samuel Butler, with notes by R. Thyer. With a selection from the author's Characters in prose

“It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to grasp that a garden isn't a testing ground for character and to stop asking, what did I do wrong? Maybe nothing.”

Self Character Evil Results Ignorance Failure Garden Asking Testing Carelessness Inexperience What Did I Do Wrong

Book:Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden

Source: Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden