"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

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Source : Elbert Hubbard (1902). “Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings”

Elbert Hubbard

#Inspirational Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Knowledge Quotes

“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!”
“Emphasize reconciliation, not resolution. It is unrealistic to expect everyone to agree about everything. Reconciliation focuses on the relationship, while resolution focuses on the problem. When we focus on reconciliation, the problem loses significance and often becomes irrelevant.”
“Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.”
“The Web provided me with a much needed realization that information cannot be fully separated from its presentation, and showed me something I knew without verbalizing explicitly, that the presentation form we choose communicates real information.”
“Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.”
“Sometimes if you wait too long, it's too late.”

Source : Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “The Sleeping Beauty Proposal”, p.214, Penguin
“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”

Source : "The Pentateuch and Haftorahs" by Joseph H. Hertz, p. 933, (One-volume edition), 1937.
“Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.”

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