“The happiness even of the naturalist depends in some measure upon his ignorance, which still leaves him new worlds of this kind to conquer. He may have reached the very Z of knowledge in the books, but he still feels half ignorant until he has confirmed each bright particular with his eyes.” WorldFeelsKindMayStillsBookEyeHalfIgnoranceParticularDependsIgnorantConquerHis EyesNew WorldNaturalist Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose. Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.” WayHeartPurposeViewsKnownIgnoranceParticularCommitmentClaimsCoreBetrayDefiningExclusiveCaricaturesSamenessUncompromisingWho God Is Author:Ravi Zacharias
“When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.” MayArtLightCausesObjectsIgnoranceParticularSourceMembersUniqueIndependentNotionSanityIsolatedDetachedEnchantmentInexplicable Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett
“Political conflict rests to a very large extent on a universal ignorance of consequences, as the people who are benefited by any particular act or policy are rarely those who struggled for it, and the people who are injured are rarely those who opposed it.” PeoplePoliticalPolicyIgnoranceParticularConflictConsequenceUniversalInjured Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.” WorldYearsCountryFormFeltHappenedIgnoranceParticularHappeningsYears AgoCirclesSuperficialSinkingHappening Again Author:Raoul Peck
“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.” KindLittlesSpiritualLawSongFeetIgnoranceParticularIllnessMental IllnessAggressiveRabbitsSlice Of Life Author:Joni Mitchell
“Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is ignorant of one thing or another. They know that, to another intelligent person, they will not appear stupid in asking for an explanation of what they do not know, and so their ignorance on any particular issue does not become an embarrassment.” PeopleKnowsPersonsDoeIssuesOne ThingStupidIgnoranceParticularIntelligentAskingIntelligenceIgnorantExplanationEmbarrassmentNot StupidThat One PersonIntelligent Person Author:Lynsay Sands
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.” KnowsNeedsMayShowsLife IsBeliefProgressIgnoranceParticularInspirational LifeEvidenceAdversityContraryThis LifeStrengtheningSure ThingPersonal Beliefs Author:Mark Twain
“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.” KnowsMenWantKindDoeScienceDesireCausesUnderstandingPleasureSituationWonderKnowledgeEffectsAwarenessIgnoranceParticularAriseIgnorantExceedAstonishmentGreatest PleasuresDesire For Knowledge Author:Thomas Aquinas
“We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.” NeedsStillsSpaceViewsNumbersBrainIgnoranceParticularOughtOfficeMassInfiniteAdmireConfusionMusclesDisorderDispositionSmall SpacesDissection Author:Nicolas Steno