#nor

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#ignorance

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#lying #truth #willful-ignorance #ignorance

Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#latin #ignorance

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#willful-ignorance #ignorance

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #truth #words #ignorance

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#truth #ignorance

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use. ↗

— Mark Twain

#ignorance

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

Patch reached for my hand and pushed my dad's ring off the tip of his finger and into my palm, curling my fingers around it. He kissed my knuckles. "I was going to give this back earlier, but it wasn't finished." I opened my palm and held the ring up. The same heart was engraved on the underside, but now there were two names carved on either side of it: NORA and JEV. I looked up. "Jev? That's your real name?" "Nobody's called me that in a long time. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #real