"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."

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Gian Carlo Menotti

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.”

Source : "Harvey Weinstein's Favorite Mistake". www.newsweek.com. March 6, 2011.
“Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.”
“squats are a form of torture designed by people who donâ€™t need to do squats in the first place”
“Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.”
“I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.”
“The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as the study of life at the level of the individual-of what plants and animals do, how they react to each other and their environment, how they are organized into larger groupings like populations and communities.”

Source : Marston Bates (2014). “The Nature of Natural History”, p.7, Princeton University Press
“The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more breadth and force than in RENEWAL. I hope this movie is screened in church basements and synagogue social halls across the country, and that it moves many more people of faith off the fence and into action.”
“I told you all lawyers are worthless. After all it takes won (sic) to know one.”

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