Anna Sewell Quotes
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
Anna Sewell
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
Patricia Sun
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
N. T. Wright
Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus
I will offer a prayer to the Trinity, May the Eternal grant me to praise thee! In the present course, dangerous Our work; destruction is a slight impulse of wrath. They reckon of the saints a tribe, King of heaven, may I be eloquent about thee! Before the separation of my soul from my flesh.
Taliesin
...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
John Burroughs
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
Ambrose Bierce
I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood
I'm gonna miss that smile, I'm gonna miss you my friendEven though it hurts the way it ended up, I'd do it all againSo play it sweet in heaven 'cause that's right where you wanna beI'm not cryin' 'cause I feel so sorry for you, I'm cryin' for me.
Toby Keith
'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'
Leonard Bacon
Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
David Gross
People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.
Elias Hicks
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
Chauncey Wright
I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.
Alek Wek
Heaven is dumb, echoing only the dumb.
Franz Kafka
We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.
Bill Murray
People associate hard work and overload with stress. But, like suffering, stress is complicated. Bad stress is stress that a system can't endure without suffering damage. It is unplanned, uncontrolled, allows no time for rest and recovery, and exceeds the capacity of the system to adjust to it. As the popular phrase suggests, it burns people out and, over time, it can decimate an entire workforce.
Edward Hallowell
How transcendent is the virtue of the middle conduct! Rare for a long time has been its practice among the people.
Confucius
No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.
Anna Sewell
