#nora

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there. ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#crazy #friendship #love #nick-o-leary #norah-silverberg

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation? ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#hurt #love #nora #nora-grey #patch

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#agent #britain #chosen #court #deliver

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ↗

— Warren Weaver

#getting #ignorance #keep #more #more and more

I don't want to be ignorant in my daughter's eyes. ↗

— Gretchen Wilson

#eyes #i #ignorant #want

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#compulsion #ignorance #nothing #receive #resist

Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion. ↗

— Philip Wylie

#ignorance #oblivion

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man –whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation. ↗

— Plato

#deceived #foolish #ignorance #imitation #knowledge