“How full of error is the judgment of mankind! They wonder at results when they are ignorant of the reasons” ReasonResultsWonderMankindJudgmentErrorsIgnorant Author:Pietro Metastasio
“A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.” IfsMenDoeReasonHappensWonderThings HappenIgnorantFamiliarityProdigies Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.” PeopleLittlesStillsReasonSeemsLawYoungUnderstandingReligiousWonderSeaYouthTheoryNeededMoralityEthicsAccountsIgnorantReason WhyBehaveSimplestOlder PeopleMisconduct Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsEndsOrderWonderKnowledgeIgnorancePhilosophicalIgnorantUtilityOwingPuzzledUtilitarian Author:Aristotle
“The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature.” MenNatureCommonWonderWiseIgnoranceIgnorantExceptionalRegularity Author:George Dana Boardman Pepper