"We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine."

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Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.31

Mary Wortley Montagu

#Art Quotes #Women Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Two things I dislike about my granddaughter - when she won't take her afternoon nap, and when she won't let me take mine.”

Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
“The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.”
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
“Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”
“We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.
“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.”
“When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.”

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