"We must make up our minds to be……" — John Henry Newman
"We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything."
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John Henry Newman
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96 Quotes by John Henry Newman
John Henry Newman has 96 quotes on this site.
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Living Nature, not dull art Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has…
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its…
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Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
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Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of…
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A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the…
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Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history.
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Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.
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God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which he has…
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The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite,…
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O most sacred, most loving heart of Jesus, thou art concealed in the Holy Eucharist, and thou beatest for us…
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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth…
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More Ignorant Quotes
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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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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of…
— Isaac Asimov
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
— Abu Bakr
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design…
— John Adams
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Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch…
— John Adams
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The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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The younger Mary J. Blige, I would call her, she was very unaware, ignorant.
— Mary J. Blige
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