
Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
Pearls of Wisdom
Variant: Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.
“Not prejudge others – not decide their value before knowing them.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 197
As quoted in Art and the Message of the Church (1961) by Walter Ludwig Nathan, p. 120.
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 257.
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“Whatever we look at, and however we look at it, we see only through our own eyes.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
A Model of Christian Charity, a sermon delivered onboard the Arbella (1630)
Source: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873-1874), Ch. 4
Context: Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language. Law, in many cases, means not only a command, but a beneficent command. Liberty means not the bare absence of restraint, but the absence of injurious restraint. Justice means not mere impartiality in applying general rules to particular cases, but impartiality in applying beneficent general rules to particular cases. Some people half consciously use the word "true" as meaning useful as well as true. Of course language can never be made absolutely neutral and colourless; but unless its ambiguities are understood, accuracy of thought is impossible, and the injury done is proportionate to the logical force and general vigour of character of those who are misled.