Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Bertrand Russell

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Robert Kiyosaki

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

B. F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Ken Cassar

Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search.

William Shakespeare

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Japanese Proverb

It is better to be ignorant than mistaken

Lindsay Anderson

I always think that, in Britain, we are terribly ignorant about India, as befits an ex-imperialist nation.

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

William Shakespeare

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Idina Menzel

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

Jeff Foster

That was a sign of a chink in our armor and nobody really realized it. We had a winning record at that point and we thought we didn't have a problem even though we got blown out. We really did, though.

Phil Klay

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Ken Tower

Maybe that is the first chink in the armor of the uptrend of crude oil prices,

Andrew Luck

I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.

Tony Russell

Going back to the Middle Ages, developing armor has involved a constant balance between the need for protection and the need for comfort, flexibility and light weight.

Jim Kelly

He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.

Gene Jones

We try to help veterans who are having trouble getting benefits. We're concerned about troops sent to Iraq without oil to lubricate their guns or correct body armor for their vehicles.

Ben Stein

I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.