"He who is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge."

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Richard Whately

#Ignorance Quotes #Intelligence Quotes #Misled Quotes

“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.”

Source : Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The only thing that's running well in Bulgaria is the Bulgarian Football Union. Unlike the BFU, many footballers here don't run, they limp.”
“I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.”
“Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.”
“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still canâ€™t help crying.”

Source : Nathanael West, Jonathan Lethem (2009). “Miss Lonelyhearts: & the Day of the Locust”, p.103, New Directions Publishing
“Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.”
“I'm on the verge of taking a stand.”
“Few things are more annoying than too many of any one ethnicity in the same room.”

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