#ignorant

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#believes #breath #down #earth #emergency

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

#better #culture #ethnically #felt #i

I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the general character of a pattern even where we are ignorant of the numerical values which will determine its particular manifestation. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#allows #character #describe #determine #equations

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ↗

— Don Herold

#ignorant #lot #one thing #only #prove

It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves. ↗

— Edward Bond

#me #ourselves #profoundly #seems

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ashamed #confess #i #i am #i do

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#ignorant #knowledge #loquacity #prefer

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#before #born #child #ignorant #occurred

I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators. ↗

— Juan Cole

#american #american administration #arrogant #been #believe