Blaise Pascal Quotes
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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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.
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The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.
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Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
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Condemnation before investigation is the highest form of ignorance.
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The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
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If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?
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In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.
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Evolutionary game theory was originally developed as an alternative to the hypothesis of group selection; now it is clear that game theory models postulate group selection, even if they do not use the g-word.
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If ignorance were bliss, he'd be a blister.
