Albert Camus Quotes
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
Lincoln Kirstein
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Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
Saint Augustine
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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.
Oscar Wilde
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It would be a shame to lose the precious jewel of liberation in the mud of ignorant body building.
K. Pattabhi Jois
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
Oscar Wilde
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We are ignorant of what it is we do not know even though we know more than we can ever say
G. L. S. Shackle
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Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.
Kristen Stewart
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The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?
Saib Tabrizi
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
John Arbuthnot
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
Henry Ward Beecher
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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.
Heraclitus
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.
Aristotle
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But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
Socrates
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When you are ignorant about something, to know that you are ignorant about it - that is knowledge.
Confucius
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
Baruch Spinoza
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The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.
Lao Tzu
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I am thing that thinks: that is, a things that doubts,affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, is willing, is unwilling, and also which imagines and has sensory perceptions.
Rene Descartes
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When I talk to a man, I can always tell what he's thinking by where he is looking. If he is looking at my eyes, he is looking for intelligence. If he is looking at my mouth, he is looking for wisdom. But if he is looking anywhere else except my chest he's looking for another man.
Dolly Parton
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He's one of those guys whose English gets worse every year. But as long as it doesn't affect his play, we're all right.
Wade William Aadland
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I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
Barack Obama
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The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.
Albert Camus