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 Owen

Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and with intelligence and happiness increased a hundredfold; and no obstacle whatsoever intervenes at this moment except ignorance to prevent such a state of society from becoming universal.

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.

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.