A Quote by Tobias Smollett

Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.

Tobias Smollett

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Tobias Smollett
Scottish - Novelist
March 19, 1721 - September 17, 1771

Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt.

Isaac Barrow

If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

Sister Nivedita

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Jared Diamond

When ignorance is bliss, there's folly in wisdom.

David Eddings

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Thomas Gray

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

Jim Rohn

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Noel Fielding

We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The common curse of mankind, folly, ignorance and stupidity.

William C. Brown

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

Luc de Clapiers

To Believe without evidence and demonstration is an act of ignorance and folly

Socrates

The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!

William Shakespeare

Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

Mason Cooley

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Cyril Connolly

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

Thomas Cole

Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it's one of the least 'brave' or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It's one thing to call it just, but to pretend it's 'brave' is Orwellian in the extreme.

Glenn Greenwald

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