Environment Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Environment Environmental Ignorance Nature Posterity Wonder
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke Copy Share Image
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known.… — Charles Osgood Copy Share Image
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Ignorance is a treasure of infinite price that most men squander, when they should cherish its least fragments; some ruin it by educating themselves,… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Learning how to transform mere ignorance into mystery, simple not knowing into wonder, is a useful skill. Because it turns out that the most… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
They paved paradise and put up a parkin lot With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swingin' hot spot Don't it always seem… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making. — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Create an environment for people to fail, to learn, and to grow. Their creativity and productivity will increase. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
