Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Huxley

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Horace Mann

On entering this world our starting-point is ignorance. None, however, but idiots remain there.

Horace Mann

Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

Homer

Who ne'er knew salt, or heard the billows roar.

Gerald Jampolsky

More and more people are beginning to feel that there must be another way of thinking, perceiving, and acting. And perhaps the beginning of another way of looking at the world is to re-evaluate all of our beliefs. It is, after all, our beliefs that determine what we are, experience, and expect. When we are willing to take a new look at our own beliefs, we then have an opportunity to begin rediscovering who and what we are and to redetermine our true purpose on Earth.

Harry Lorayne

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

J. M. Coetzee

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

J. K. Rowling

Imperfect understanding is often more dangerous than ignorance.

Ivan Pavlov

Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

Joe Flaherty

There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older.

Robert H. Schuller

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

Susan Sontag

A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened. The picture may distort; but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is like what’s in the picture

Ray Lewis

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

Randy Alcorn

There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.

Thomas Jefferson

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...

Swami Vivekananda

All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you.