Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Baruch Spinoza

I make this chief distinction between religion and superstition, that the latter is founded on ignorance, the former on knowledge.

Benito Mussolini

Silence is the only answer you should give to the fools. Where ignorance speaks, intelligence should not give advices.

Jane Goodall

So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.

Calvin Coolidge

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Alain Badiou

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

Charles Darwin

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!

Vandana Shiva

The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is not a biological issue. People are not increasing in numbers out of stupidity and ignorance. Population growth is an ecological phenomenon linked very intimately to other issues, such as the usurpation of the resources which allow people to live.

Jared Diamond

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Thomas Hoving

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

Blaise Pascal

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

and City

Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!

Whitney Mays

At some point, your will dies. At some point, your addiction has a whole other plan for you.

Mark Griffiths

When I started out particularly in Internet addiction back in 1995, I thought that this could potentially be a major problem. In no way has the hype lived up to what has actually been found in research.

Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain.

Aldous Huxley

Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Desmond Tutu

We can no longer continue feeding our addiction to fossil fuels as if there is no tomorrow. For there will be no tomorrow.

Bill Hornbarger

The big thing on everybody's mind is oil prices.

Toba Beta

A well-trained mind responded to symptoms. An ordinary mind reacted after it happened.

Joshua Young

At times, you don't think you are going to be able to do it. But if you do what you are supposed to do and keep your mind on focus, you'll get a whole lot out of it.

James Fox

People think 'Performance' blew my mind... my mind was blown long before that.

Daphne Maurier

a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Mike Love

The songs are complicated enough to keep your mind engaged,

Nick Rimando

The thing that's on my mind now is the (United-Galaxy) game. It grounds us a little bit.

Steve Brozak

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked (in the negotiations).

Steve Brozak

The thing that comes to mind is that Guidant blinked.