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.

Edmund Burke

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

Virgil

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Vincent Van Gogh

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

William Blake

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Centres, or centre-pieces of wood, are put by builders under an arch of stone while it is in the process of construction till the keystone is put in. Just such is the use Satan makes of pleasures to construct evil habits upon; the pleasure lasts till the habit is fully formed; but that done the habit may stand eternal. The pleasures are sent for firewood, and the hell begins in this life.

Rudolfo Anaya

It is because good is always stronger than evil. Always remember that, Antonio. The smallest bit of good can stand against all the powers of evil in the world and it will emerge triumphant.

Rudolf Steiner

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

W. H. Auden

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.

Herb Grace

Kevin Lynch was huge tonight, especially on the post. He gave us a great effort and is the heart and soul of our team.

Gerald Myers

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Doc Rivers

I thought some guys gave good effort tonight, but some have their luggage in mind on the plane already. Turnovers and shot selection killed us.

Rob Ciarlo

He?s going to give you a good effort every time he goes out there.

Bruce Marthaller

We made too many mistakes to win the game, but the effort and the intensity were right there the whole time.

Larry Brown

We made some hustle plays that got us back. We played hard. The effort was there, and that was big.

Tim Duncan

I don't even know how he got it off, honestly. I think he shot it with his left hand. I went after his right hand, thinking he was going to float it with the time going down like that, but somehow he got it up there and it stayed up there on the rim and went in. It was just a great shot, a great effort by those guys to turn a turnover into a fast-break that quickly and get it to the rim.

Dan Fridgen

I am emotionally drained. The injuries kept on occurring ... but what an effort by our guys.