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The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui. -- Helen Westley
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations. -- Archibald Macleish
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
A corruption of intentions. -- Robert Ludlum
Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '
but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia? -- Lewis Carroll
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. -- Plato
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. -- Antonio Gramsci
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition. -- Josh Billings
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey/Where wealth accumulates and men decay -- Oliver Goldsmith
Ignorance and evil-an ugly alliance. -- Tom Angleberger
An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
by indignities men come to dignities -- Francis Bacon
I know no disease of the soul but ignorance, a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and common confounder of truth. -- Ben Jonson
ennui - that dreaded mire of the human emotions. -- Amor Towles
A sickness ... defines margins, crystallizes the shape of things. -- Martha Ostenso
Omnicompetence,' the ability to obtain whatever one wants or needs, is an unattainable but continuously approachable ideal for all mankind - past, present, and future. -- Russell L. Ackoff
ignoramus et ignorabimus - we are ignorant and will remain so. Somehow -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
God is the ace up the sleeve of illogic. -- Sylvia Iparraguirre
sickness of hope deferred, -- Joshua Wolf Shenk
Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy. -- Toba Beta
Insomnia, from the Greek word meaning I can't fucking sleep! -- Billy Crystal
an agony of humiliated indecision -- Aldous Huxley
The incomprehension is when the thing happens without knowing the reasons. -- Adele Mandez
Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies. -- Saint John Chrysostom
A certain jollity of mind, pickled in the scorn of fortune. -- Francois Rabelais
The stupidity of one brain multiplied by twelve. -- Elbert Hubbard
impossible planning, strange priorities and a continual lack of information. -- Henning Mankell
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo. -- Susan Sontag
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance. -- Ben Jonson
Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves -- William Shakespeare
blissful as ignorance, -- Brian Greene
An ill winde that bloweth no man to good. -- John Heywood
The intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect. -- William James
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. -- Criss Jami
Illegibility
of this world. All things twice over.
The strong clocks justify
the splitting hour,
hoarsely.
You , clamped
into your deepest part,
climb out of yourself
for ever. -- Paul Celan
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends. -- Milan Kundera
We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The reign of imagology begins where history ends -- Milan Kundera
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. -- Blaise Pascal
Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy; indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile. -- Elie Wiesel
All that the world needs most today, is combined in the most deductive manner in his art; the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality, and innocence (idiocy). -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. -- Francis Bacon
I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. -- Gerd Gigerenzer
They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance ... But the truth will prevail. -- Imelda Marcos
Disdain is a natural condition of the mind in exile; -- Stacy Schiff
The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind. -- Tom Robbins
The taint of arrogance will I not know ... -- Walter Russell
Ignorance clarifies. It selects and omits with placid perfection. -- Kate Morton
Genius - the pursuit of madness. -- Criss Jami
Idleness, simon-pure, from which all manner of good springs like seed from a fallow soil, is sure to be misnamed and misconstrued ... -- Louise Imogen Guiney
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write. -- Joseph Addison
The general plot of life is sometimes shaped by the different ways genuine intelligence combines with equally genuine ignorance. -- Lucy Grealy
Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world. -- Fidel Castro
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance. -- G.k. Chesterton
know your ignorance; defile your ignorance -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Illiness could be considered a Western form of meditation. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself. -- Bertolt Brecht
The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding. -- Francis Bacon
In the ignorance that implies the impression that knits knowledge that finds the nameform that whets the wits that convey contacts that sweeten sensation that drives desire that adheres to attachment that dogs death that bitches birth that entails the ensuance of existentiality. -- James Joyce
Boredom ... what is this foreign word you speak of, General? I fear I know nothing of it. Ash -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
a craving for the cloud of unknowing beyond knowledge and for the silence beyond speech, -- Susan Sontag
Ignorance: the root of all evil. -- Plato
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow. -- Robert Genn
The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect. -- John Fowles
I hope that as a totally literate human being that you don't even know what "illiteracy" is because it simply doesn't exist in your world. -- Peter Davis
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance. -- William Gaddis
The curse of the great is ennui. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. -- Bernard Williams
In indolent vacuity of thought. -- William Cowper
The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable! -- Oscar Wilde
Mankind's biggest blunder, ignorance. Mankind's second, infallible. -- M.t. Dismuke
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. -- John Dryden
What cause then, to have me in hysterics of unknown kind?
Far-off the clandestine black where my road I cannot find,
What cause then, to submit me not here? -- Mpho Leteng
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. -- Charles Baudelaire
Minds altogether horrible in their power, and in their ignorance - which their power protected. -- Fritz Leiber
The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down. -- Edwin Chadwick
The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.'68 -- Andrew Roberts
The Old Powers of earth are not for men to use. They were never given into our hands, and in our hands they work only ruin. Ill means, ill end. I was not drawn here, but driven here, and the force that drove me works to my undoing. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance. -- Henri Poincare
Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour. -- J.m. Bernstein
Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like. -- Jennifer Worth
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma ... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. -- Edgar Allan Poe
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools. -- Robert Burns
The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. -- Matthew Ashimolowo
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. -- James Russell Lowell
Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one. -- Debasish Mridha
In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down. -- Marina Lewycka
It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions. -- R. Scott Bakker
The world is full of incomprehensible words -- Haruki Murakami
Evil is a form of incompetence. -- Alan Bullock
Ingenuousness is skewed by the cracks in the mirrors of the eye caused by the blunders of the insincere -- T-Anne Constable
Madness is the acme of intelligence. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Moral obliquity and consequently lack of good sense; for it has long been accepted that lack of good sense is due to no other cause than moral obliquity. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge, -- Michel Foucault
A problem of the soul, a heaviness of the heart, a darkness of the conscience -- Yann Martel
This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims. -- Matthew Arnold
