Christine de Pizan Quotes

Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

Christine de Pizan

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• Ignorance
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• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Man
  • Evil

• God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • God
  • Nature

• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  

  Walter Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Rest

• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Good And Evil

• The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Success
  • Knowledge

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Silence brings us new namesnew feelings and new knowledge.Dreams dress us carefullyin the colors of power and faith.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

  

  James A. Forbes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

  

  Chanakya
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Purpose

• The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

  

  Jean Baudrillard
  • World
  • Evil

• Stuffing is evil. Stuffing adds mass, so it slows the cooking. That's evil because the longer the bird cooks, the drier it will be.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Evil
  • Cooking
  • Bird

• My father was in the military; he was a captain. His service was to quote-unquote integrate the Armed Forces overseas.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Father
  • Military
  • Service

• People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

  

  Mike Tyson
  • People
  • Successful
  • Cares

• By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.

  

  James O'Shaughnessy
  • Time
  • Free
  • Feeling

• Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere brunotoglieva li animai che sono in terrada le fatiche loro.

  

  Dante Alighieri

• Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Attention
  • Water
  • Eye

• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Ignorance