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“Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This is a precious gift.”

Men Feels Ignorance Great Things Accomplished Impotence Precious Gifts

Author:Paul Valery

“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

“Men are always averse to enterprises in which they foresee difficulties.”

Men Ignorance Difficulty Enterprise

Book:The Prince

Source: The Prince

“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.”

Thinking Men Natural Creation Ignorance Ego Tendencies Proportion Arrogant Egotism Infancy

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.”

Men Persons Laughing Too Much Share Ignorance News Laughter Witty Wit Conceit Jest

Book:The Works of George Herbert: Poems

Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems