Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Hooker

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

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.

Will Rogers

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.

Will Rogers

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Rudyard Kipling

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!

W. E. B. Du Bois

Ignorance is a cure for nothing.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

William S. Burroughs

The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

William Shatner

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Virginia Graham

I have the perfect face for radio.

Wayne Dyer

When you're connected to God, every moment is perfectly perfect.

Virginie LeDoyen

DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

Walt Whitman

All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Virginia Woolf

For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.

Voltaire

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.

William Feather

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.

Karolina Kurkova

Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.

Baltasar Gracian

Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.

Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine.

Aristotle

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Noel Coward

There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead.

Donna Leon

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.