Nescience Synonym Quotes & Sayings

A lot of people only see me as villains. — Terence Stamp

I hide you inside me because I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind ... — John Geddes

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!" — Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

The most beautiful things often stand alone. — Jenim Dibie

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. — Milton Friedman

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is. — Avicenna

I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done. — Steven Wright

The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an honour to them not to me! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. — Kurt Vonnegut

There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a healthy natural red color. The heavy lines under them, her jowls, extended to the intersection of her lips and gave her a thick-lipped frown most of the time." The phrase "Her cheeks were thick and smooth" is normal English, but "[Her cheeks] held a healthy natural red color" is elevated, pseudo-poetic. The word "held" faintly hints at personification of "cheeks," and "healthy natural red color" is clunky, stilted, slightly bookish. The second sentence contains similar mistakes. The diction level of "extended to the intersection of her lips" is high and formal, in ferocious conflict with the end of the sentence, which plunges to the colloquial "most of the time. — John Gardner