Famous Quotes & Sayings

Blaise Pascal

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Denis Diderot

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

Elbert Hubbard

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Elbert Hubbard

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

Adolf Hitler

How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.

Aldous Huxley

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Aldous Huxley

Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

Aldous Huxley

So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many unexploded certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel they are always right and who attached a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Arthur Bloch

When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.

Branch Rickey

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

Antonio Porchia

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Nick Saban

We certainly created some adversity for ourselves to overcome out there, ... but I was really pleased with how we responded time in and time out. Nobody's ever happy with penalties. Nobody's ever happy with turnovers. But I think it's most important to establish how you respond to that stuff when it happens in the game.

Allen Klein

I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks without defeat.

Dalai Lama

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Anselm of Canterbury

Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Dan Hooks

To be behind to Nederland 10-0 and comeback was a great accomplishment. We fought back and toppled adversity and thought we did a decent job tonight.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Albert Einstein

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

Simone Elkeles

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

Shahrukh Khan

It's easy to be ignorant but it's very intricate to be aware.

Ralph Nader

Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.

Plato

He seemeth to be most ignorant that trusteth most to his wit.

Oscar Wilde

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Lactantius

But those who are ignorant of the truth do not think that these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those voices are not divine, but human.

Fidel Castro

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.