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“There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.”

Three Ignorance Degrees Comparison

Author:Pietro Mascagni

“The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them. 3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.”

Way May Use Three Class Ignorance Lows Paid Labour Oppressed Working Class Wages Employers Neglected Incompetent Three Ways

Author:Robert Owen

“Three key humanist virtues are courage, cognition, and caring - not dependence, ignorance, or insensitivity to the needs of others.”

Needs Three Virtue Atheism Ignorance Keys Caring Positive Atheism Humanist Dependence Cognition Needs Of Others Insensitivity

Author:Paul Kurtz

“Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.”

Children Important Self Facts School Three Asks Subjects Ignorance Curiosity Protection Grades Unfortunate Toddler Self Protection

Book:The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

Source: The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart

“From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).”

Three Views Ignorance Anger Greed Poison Delusion

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”

Thinking Humans Book Three Asks Minutes Subjects Ignorance Conversation Tables Boredom Thoughtful Dull Speakers Shocking Emphasis Human Thought Table Of Contents

Author:Stendhal

“There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans--who were not allowed to learn to read and write--and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.”

Writing Country Values Three Century Ignorance Ancient Traditional Native Speakers Native American American Values

Book:WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.”

Three Causes Mankind Ignorance Madness Errors Excited Remedy Toil Discontent Mazes Bewildered

Book:Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

Source: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions

“Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.”

Soul Three Poverty Fate Ignorance Chains Gray Grind Drudgery

Author:Edwin Markham

“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.”

“We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.”

Mean Moving Three Fire Ignorance Letting Go Greed Burning Moving On Poison Accomplished Dissatisfaction Letting Go And Moving On Can't Let Go Letting Go Of Anger Burning Fire

Book:Shinjo: Reflections

Source: Shinjo: Reflections

“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”

Writing Three Literature Novel Ignorance Volume

Author:Oscar Wilde

“There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain in an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the soldiers.”

Source: The Art of War