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  • Plotinus God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Tryon Edwards Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bret Harte Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum — Saying, Come Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Sydney Smith Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Voltaire He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Adams Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • John Adams I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bayazid Bastami I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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  • Clarence Darrow I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Clarence Darrow I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Harriet Tubman I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
    Harriet Tubman
    American abolitionist and humanitarian (1822 - 1913)
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  • Richard Dawkins I once wrote that anybody who believes the world is only 6,000 years old is either ignorant, stupid, insane or wicked.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • John F. Kennedy I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Elisabeth Gaskell I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought!
    Elisabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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