Calamity Quote by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Download Open image “Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.” — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calamity High places Ignorance Wells
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too… — Plato Copy Share Image
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no worse calamity for knowledge and its people than when outsiders intrude. They are ignorant, but presume to know. They cause trouble… — Babloo Copy Share Image
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us from surprises. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of jealousy and… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. -… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe,… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
