"In order to have wisdom we must have…" — Theodore Dreiser
"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."
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42 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser has 42 quotes on this site.
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I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do…
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of.…
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The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him.
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Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.
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We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument,…
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Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this…
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Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and…
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I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter…
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If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to…
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Shakespeare, I come !
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A thought will color a world for us.
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Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of…
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More Ignorance 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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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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