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“The visibility at the best of times is liable to be a bit haxy due to clouds of ignorance.”

Bits Ignorance Clouds Dues Liable Visibility

Author:Carroll Smith

“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”

Ifs World Would Be Order Evil Animal Greatness Ignorance Goodness Weakness Destruction Accounts Dues Grades Lions Diverse Lacking Preservation Persecution Preservation Of Life

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.”

Ifs World Able Pleasure Ignorance Prove Dues Gratification Extravagant Insensible Willfulness

Author:Washington Allston

“Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as deserved becomes respectable. For punishment when awarded with due consideration, makes the people devoted to righteousness and to works productive of wealth and enjoyment; while punishment, when ill-awarded under the influence of greed and anger or owing to ignorance, excites fury even among hermits and ascetics dwelling in forests, not to speak of householders.”

People Speak Wealth Influence Ignorance Greed Ill Dues Punishment Forests Enjoyment Productive Consideration Righteousness Awards Devoted Severe Fury Respectable Dwelling Owing Hermits

Author:Chanakya

“The world was sick, and the ills from which it was suffering were mainly due to the perversion of man, his inability to live at peace with himself. The microbe was no longer the main enemy; science was sufficiently advanced to be able to cope with it admirably. If it were not for such barriers as superstition, ignorance, religious intolerance, misery and poverty.”

Ifs Men World Able Suffering Religious Enemy Poverty Ignorance Sick Misery Dues Barriers Superstitions Intolerance Inability Perversion Religious Intolerance Microbes

Author:Brock Chisholm

“A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.”

Persons Doe Shows Action Creation Greatness Ignorance Creator Dues

Author:Ibn Rajab

“You are really in search of yourself, without knowing it. You are love-longing for the love-worthy, the perfect lovable. Due to ignorance you are looking for it in the world of opposites and contradictions. When you find it within, your search will be over.”

World Perfect Knowing Ignorance Opposites Longing Worthy Dues Contradiction Lovable

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

Today Evil Meditation Ignorance Meetings Ill Dues Selfishness Each Day Interference Ingratitude Offenders Disloyalty Insolence Ill Will

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.”

Way Firsts Ideas Lasts Science Force Rocks Ignorance Accounts Dues Ignorant Appeals Electrical Rejecting Reefs Firsts And Lasts

Book:Corals and Coral Islands

Source: Corals and Coral Islands

“That the fundamental aspects of heredity should have turned out to be so extraordinarily simple supports us in the hope that nature may, after all, be entirely approachable. Her much-advertised inscrutability has once more been found to be an illusion due to our ignorance. This is encouraging, for, if the world in which we live were as complicated as some of our friends would have us believe we might well despair that biology could ever become an exact science.”

Source: The Physical basis of heredity