Cleveland Abbe Quotes

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

Cleveland Abbe

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• New York City
• Boyhood

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• 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

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Ignorance
  • His

• 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 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.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • God
  • Speak
  • Ignorance

• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Space
  • Focus

• Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Diversity

• The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.'I did not know that I was a virtue,' she said. 'Why did you not choose Innocence?''Because of her ignorance,' they replied. 'She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.'

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Why
  • She
  • Ignorance

• 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

• A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• Racism springs from ignorance.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Ignorance
  • Racism

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Dark

• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Ignorance

• Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

  

  David Horsey
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Rest

• The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

  

  Jean Toomer
  • Ignorance

• It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.

  

  William Cowper Brann
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Brain

• As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven’t heard of some of them.

  

  Donald Barthelme
  • People
  • Author

• A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Politician

• I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Die
  • Never
  • Seen

• There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Forget
  • Fruit
  • Periods

• My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

  

  Cleveland Abbe
  • Ignorance
  • Impressed
  • New York City