"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is……" — Joseph Wood Krutch
"It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder."
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Joseph Wood Krutch
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any,…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or…
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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.
— Isaac Asimov
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that…
— 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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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning…
— Isaac Asimov
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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,…
— Teresa of Avila
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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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