A Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Active Female Generally Ignorance

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French - Writer
September 15, 1613 - March 17, 1680

[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.

Will Cuppy

There are male as well as female gossips.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Nicolas Chamfort

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul P. Harris

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?

Bill Ackman

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Willis R. Whitney

I like to stay fit by being generally active.

Diane Kruger

The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

Albert Mackey

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements.