Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hooker

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

Robyn Carr

Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.

Robert Silverberg

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Samuel Johnson

Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Warren Weaver

We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Washington Allston

If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.

Voltaire

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

Voltaire

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

Ben Cohen

I can get my dog's hair cut, my wife can get her nails done, I can get a po' boy, but there's no place to get justice.

Troy Polamalu

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

Willie Geist

Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.

Troy Garity

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.

Morena Baccarin

I've had long hair, I've had short hair, and I've had in between hair... and its all good.

Joseph Addison

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

Jonathan Schell

The machinery of destruction is complete, poised on a hair trigger, waiting for the 'button' to be 'pushed' by some misguided or deranged human being or for some faulty computer chip to send out the instruction to fire. That so much should be balanced on so fine a point--that the fruit of four and a half billion years can be undone in a careless moment--is a fact against which belief rebels.

Joe Pesci

I dyed my hair blonde in that movie, so my head doesn't match my grill.

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Ryan Hall

The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

William Zinsser

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woody Allen

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

William James

You can't out-perform your self-image.