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“Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united in the same persons; although usually decision is the fruit of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. But the palm of courage will surely be adjudged most justly to those, who best know the difference between hardship and pleasure and yet are never tempted to shrink from danger. In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.”

Source: History of Greece

“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.”

“Ignorance, vulnerability, fear, anger, and desire are expressions of the infinite potential of your buddha nature. There's nothing inherently wrong or right with making such choices. The fruit of Buddhist practice is simply the recognition that these and other mental afflictions are nothing more or less than choices available to us because our real nature is infinite in scope.”

Real Desire Choices Practice Ignorance Expression Buddhism Infinite Fruit Available Buddhist Recognition Vulnerability Affliction Scope Buddha Nature Infinite Potential Wrong Or Right

Book:The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.”

World Interesting Ignorance Fruit Surface Shimmer Inebriation

Book:The fall into time

Source: The fall into time

“When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

Children Mother Results Race Ignorance Mom Foundation Fruit Population Motherhood Accidents Yearning Being A Mom

Book:Woman and the New Race

Source: Woman and the New Race

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

Gone Ignorance Importance Fruit Delicate Earnest Exotic Upper Class Acts Of Violence Importance Of Being Earnest

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

Giving Firsts Action Tree Ignorance Let Me Give Me Fruit Calm Storm Eden Tempest Garden Of Eden Thoughts And Actions Tree Of Knowledge

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.”

Men World Firsts Humanity Liberty Steps Atheism Ignorance Eternal Fruit Atheist Obedience Satan Ashamed Rebel Stamps Seals Brows Freethinker

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”

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Author:James Madison

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.”

“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”

Persons Made Order Pleasure Cutting Tree Ignorance Patience Fruit Smile Pursuit Fierce Savages Impatient Blunders

Author:William Ellery Channing

“There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.”

Should May Has Beens Two Reason God Spirituality Christ Ignorance Taught Fruit Reason Why Present Life

Book:True Spirituality

Source: True Spirituality