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.

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Wallace Stevens

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.

Warren Cuccurullo

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Vincent Van Gogh

So let us go forward quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Ayn Rand

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Boyd Rice

People who consider themselves political, who follow political developments most rigorously, are often those who view the political process with the greatest lack of perspective.

Jane Hirshfield

Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.

Juvenal

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Alain de Botton

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.