"If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool."

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Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.

Theophrastus

#Men Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Acting Quotes

“Training with confidence is the only way to train”
“I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know. This painless birth, like an unsolicited proof, gives me untold pleasure, and with neither toil nor certainty but the joy of frank astonishment I follw the pen that is guiding and supporting me.”
“It felt good to be writing in her own room, in her own bed. To get lost in the World of Mages and stay lost. To not hear any voices in her head but Simon's and Baz's. Not even her own. This was why Cath wrote fic. For these hours when their world supplanted the real world.”
“This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.”
“People want other people to know that they share our sensibility even if they're not exactly sure what that sensibility is.”
“It is a fact of history and of current events that human beings exaggerate, misinterpret, or wrongly remember events. They have also fabricated pious fraud. Most believers in a religion understand this when examining the claims of other religions.”
“With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?”

Source : Henri Michaux (1997). “Tent Posts”, Green Integer Books
“I can connect anything to anything,”

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