Quotes with self-ignorance

Quotes 681 till 700 of 874.

  • Barry Eisler The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Benazir Bhutto The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Carl Sagan The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgement to have safely traveled from star to star.
    Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • E. B. White The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • John Sterling The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.
    Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis There are many causes why a people politically ignorant cannot be roused to action. Perfect political ignorance must be accompanied by indifference to the general interests of society, and thus one of the most powerful motives which can act on the human mind is totally destroyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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  • Carl Sagan There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • William Hazlitt There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Dorothea Brande There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
    Dorothea Brande
    American writer and editor (1893 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Lord Acton There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Woodrow Wilson There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Francis Bacon There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William James There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Bernard Malamud There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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