Unacquainted Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain-there is nothing in the whole system if laws…
— Arthur Eddington
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The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief…
— Antony Hewish
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but…
— James Cook
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Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.
— Horace
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The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
— Ambrose Bierce
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No wonder if such persons look upon imputed righteousness as the shadow of a dream, who esteem those things which evidence its necessity to be…
— John Owen
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You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant…
— William Cavendish
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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was…
— Ambrose Bierce
Who Wrote These Unacquainted Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Unacquainted Quotes as follows: