"The ignorant man never enjoys."
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"The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves."
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"The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside."
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"They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss."
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"But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk."
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"Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed."
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"Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar"
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"And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know."
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"No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture."
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"To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child"
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"You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing up, it is spirit and dream, thought and love and act that matter."
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"In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with."
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"The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma."
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"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it."
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"The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud."
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"A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle."
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"Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches."
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"I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations."
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
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"And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep."
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