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

• Heaven
• Ignorance
• Wickedness

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• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Know
  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• 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
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Want

• 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
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• 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
  • Together
  • Future
  • Faith

• 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
  • People
  • Long
  • Death

• Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Energy
  • Heaven
  • Thoughts

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• 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
  • Work
  • May
  • Soul

• ...the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Mind
  • Heaven

• All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Heaven
  • Logic

• 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
  • Good
  • Attention
  • Heaven

• I know-yet my arms are empty,That fondly folded seven,And the mother heart within meIs almost starved for heaven.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Heaven

• Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Work
  • Ignorance

• 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
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sweet

• 'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Great
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

  

  David Gross
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Easy

• My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing... I don't mind being dashed on the rocks... My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I like to do as much improv as I can do.

  

  Jordan Klepper

• You should not think that you can shape history only by your will. This is also why I'm against the concept of intervention when you don't know its ultimate implications.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • History
  • Intervention
  • Implications

• Over my career, I think I've shown can make a big pitch.

  

  Andy Pettitte
  • Career
  • Make
  • Pitch

• 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
  • Heaven
  • Ignorance
  • Wickedness