"Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance."

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Source : Susan Wiggs (2012). “At the King's Command”, p.168, Harlequin

Susan Wiggs

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Littles Quotes

“But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.”

Source : Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”
“There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It isn't.”
“Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.”
“I just want to be known for things other than my sexuality.”
“I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.”

Source : Song: Two Fingers, Album: Jake Bugg, 2012
“Unfortunately, philosophers of science usually regard scientific realism and scientific anti-realism as monistic doctrines. The assumption is that there is one goal of all scientific inference - finding propositions that are true, or finding propositions that are predictively accurate. In fact, there are multiple goals. Sometimes realism is the right interpretation of a scientific problem, while at other times instrumentalism is.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I haven't had the recognition I deserve, You can go back to anybody's career - Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe, David Haye, Amir Khan, Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn, Steve Collins, Naseem Hamed. My record is better than all of theirs.”
“The capacity to suffer varies more than anything that I have observed in human nature.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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