"But to live in ignorance on such a…" — Jane Austen
"But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible."
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691 Quotes by Jane Austen
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
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There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being…
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
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There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
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There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect…
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
— Isaac Asimov
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
— Francis of Assisi
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
— Mary Astell
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church,…
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the…
— Lord Acton
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