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.

Luther Burbank

Science . . . has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.

Karl Popper

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

Karen O

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

Malala Yousafzai

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

John McAfee

Ignorance and confidence are constant companions

George Lopez

No particular race is the enemy. Ignorance is the enemy.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Dolores Huerta

Every minute a chance to change the world…

Dick Gephardt

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

Derek Sivers

When you make a business you're making a little world.

Deepak Chopra

Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.

Deepak Chopra

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

Debbie Allen

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

Debbie Harry

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.