"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision."

Source : Maria Monk (1851). “The Character of a Convent: Displayed in the Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk ; Being a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice and Two Years as a Black Nun in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal ; to which is Added Confirmatory Notes and Affidavits Whereby Maria Monk's Disclosures are Most Fully Proved, and the Hideous Nature of the Conventual System are Exposed”, p.27

Maria Monk

#Ignorance Quotes #Giving Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I always thought I was going to die before I was 60.”
“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”

Source : Guy Debord (2014). “The Society of the Spectacle”, p.39, Bureau of Public Secrets
“I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.”

Source : Leonora Carrington, Mexican Museum (1991). “Leonora Carrington--the Mexican Years, 1943-1985”, Mexican Museum/San Francisco
“It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.”
“I had the idea for the show like a year and a half, two years ago. And it was all about the things that I didn't like about TV. I was trying to create a positive solution for it. And it actually worked.”
“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.”

Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
“Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.”
“Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.”

Source : "The best of the Group of Seven".

"All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision."

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