Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hooker

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

Richard Rohr

Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.

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.

Robert Staughton Lynd

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Solow

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

Robert Penn Warren

For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

Robert Jeffress

If it's true that Christ was correct in saying that faith in himself is the only way to heaven, then sharing that truth is a demonstration of love, not hatred, toward unbelievers.

Warren Mitchell

Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.

Voltaire

The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Jacque Fresco

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

Eric Hoffer

Those of little faith are of little hatred.

Lauren Oliver

This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot. It is hard and deep and angular, a system of blockades. It is everything and total. Hatred is a high tower. In the Wilds, I start to build, and to climb.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is a settled anger.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

Leon Botstein

I know nothing about this subject, but I do have prejudices, which I am more than happy to share with you.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Nicolas Malebranche

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Abdu'l Baha

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Jena Malone

If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word is a prejudice.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All words are prejudices.

Jane Porter

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Ernestine Rose

There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.