Best ignorance & taken Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.”

Men Faces Taken Environment Risk Effects Ignorance Consequence Ultimate Environmental Uncertainty Outcomes Intervention

Book:Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

Source: Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White

“It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.”

Men May Would Be Law Cases Taken Ignorance Excuse Every Man Cognizant

Author:Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

“I gave no prescriptions, And those who have taken my moods for prophecies Mistake the matter.”

Matter Mistake Taken Ignorance Mood Prophecy Prescriptions

Book:The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001

Source: The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001

“Man's ignorance of the Law of Love in personal and world relationships will not serve as an excuse to save him from disaster. Wealth cannot be acquired from others by might, for wealth thus taken will impoverish him who takes anything which is not given. Nor can power be thus acquired, for the weakness of the despoiled will prevail against the might of the despoiler.”

Men World Might Law Given Wealth Business Taken Ignorance Weakness Excuse Disaster Ignorance Of The Law

Author:Walter Russell

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.”

Ifs Men Stills Would Be Christian Religion Jesus Names Taken Atheism Ignorance Horror Worship Sensible Seriousness Sects Worship God Synonym Carnage

Author:Voltaire

“The basic idea of karma is not punishment. Karma presents the opportunity for development; to make use of opportunities that were not taken advantage of, to fill in gaps of ignorance, to enlarge understanding through experience, to do what should be done.”

Should Ideas Done Use Opportunity Understanding Taken Ignorance Development Advantage Karma Punishment Gaps Taken Advantage

Author:Seth

“In a government institution, there is only one area in which problems are taken seriously, and that is the political. Many of the strange things done in American educationism suddenly become perfectly understandable when we see them not as educational methods but as political maneuvers. We must understand illiteracy, therefore, the root of ignorance and thoughtlessness, as not some inadvertent failure to accomplish what was intended but simply a political arrangement of great value to somebody.”

“If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.”

Ifs Should May Has Beens Certain Church Taken Subjects Ignorance Holy Goodness Catholic Conformity Say Anything Malice Catholic Church Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and are self-serving.”

People Self Problem Government Force Taken Ignorance Solve Serving Incentives Monopoly Incompetence Self Serving Unqualified

Author:John Stossel

“I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.”

“I think Americans yearn for other alternatives to peace, than the path our government has currently taken, and perhaps why there is great interest in this book, and the message to fight poverty and ignorance with education.”

Thinking Book Fighting Interest Poverty Path Taken Ignorance

Author:Greg Mortenson

“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.”

Thinking Men Able Order Fighting Taken Sadness Ignorance Misery

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into a fiery cone of scorn that had burned for ages in the hollows of their minds― cooled ―and spilled over lips of outrage, consuming whatever was in its path.”

Mind Self Age Path Taken Ignorance Hatred Lips Burned Hopelessness Scorn Consuming Outrage Fiery Self Hatred Cones

Author:Toni Morrison

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.”

“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”

“Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.”

Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods.”

Knows Men Mean Would Be Religion Wish Causes Taken Atheism Ignorance Fool Authority Miracle Philosopher Staring Adore Astonishment Interpreter

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we are attached to things which will be taken away by the time of death, or even perhaps before. You may be very much attached to money but you can go bankrupt tomorrow. You may be very much attached to your power and position, your presidency, your prime ministership, but they are like soap bubbles. Today they are here, tomorrow not even a trace will be left.”

May Whole Today Left Darkness Taken Position Ignorance Strange Tomorrow Thousand Misery Combination Attachment Prime Bubbles Presidency Soap Soap Bubbles

Author:Rajneesh

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