Quote by Jeremy Taylor
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

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If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. – Jeremy Taylor

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Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor. – Jeremy Taylor

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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. – Joel Edgerton

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Always, through my whole life, Ive had a thirst for knowledge. – Emmitt Smith

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. – Ella Maillart

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No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. – Lord Mountbatten

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