Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin DisraeliRead
Ignorance never settles a question.
Interpretation
Lack of knowledge does not provide answers to problems.
The quote by Benjamin Disraeli emphasizes that simply ignoring a question or avoiding knowledge does not resolve issues. It suggests that understanding and education are necessary to tackle questions and that ignorance only leaves problems unresolved.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the importance of education.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
No man was ever wise by chance.
As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.
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