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.

Jennifer Rodriguez

He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.

Richelle Mead

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

William Howard Taft

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

Sarah Dessen

Everyone had a forever.

Sarah Dessen

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.

Sarah Dessen

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Sarah Dessen

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now

William Lloyd Garrison

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

Ryan Adams

Forever only takes its toll on some

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker.

Alain de Botton

It is no coincidence that the Western attraction to sublime landscapes developed at precisely the moment when traditional beliefs in God began to wane.

Brigham Young

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?

Denis Diderot

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

Eleanor Clift

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

Elbert Hubbard

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.

Stephen Jay Gould

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Adolf Hitler

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.