Ignorant Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image “Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ignorant Learning Respect Reverence Understanding Whole Wholeness
How can the unknown merit reverence? In other words how can you revere that of which you are ignorant? At the same time, it… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck… — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
Reverence is an ennobling sentiment; it is felt to be degrading only by the vulgar mind, which would escape the sense of its own… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever claims to understand another person completely, is either entirely ignorant of himself, or else has a nature so small that he can measure… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“Understanding also comes in different ways according to beliefs and misbeliefs” — Shiran Chathuka Copy Share Image
People tend to judge what they don't understand. And they tend to understand only what they have already judge. — Doreen F Graves Copy Share Image
UNDERSTANDING is much deeper than KNOWLEDGE... there are many people who know. Us but very few who understand us.. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Understanding and not understanding are all in the scheme of ignorance, just a realm of the mind. This is not learning. This is your… — H.W.L. Poonja Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...God does not possess a private knowledge of Himself and a separate knowledge of all the creatures in common. The universal Cause, by knowing… — Pope Dionysius Copy Share Image
Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable… — Pope Gregory VII Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Every single moment, an ignorant discovers an idea that has been known for centuries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image