Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Bertrand Russell

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Robert Kiyosaki

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.

Petrarch

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

B. F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Ken Cassar

Whether it's out of laziness or ignorance, consumers' starting point is very much search.

William Shakespeare

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Bob Kane

I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

Janet Jackson

There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.

Alan Dershowitz

All sides in a trial want to hide at least some of the truth.

Dick Bruna

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me.

Adolf Hitler

Capitalism and Bolshevism are the two sides of the same international Jewish coin.

Anton LaVey

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

Alicia Keys

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

D. H. Lawrence

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

Angelina Jolie

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

Bill Vaughan

Flattery, though a base coin, is the necessary pocket money at court; where, by custom and consent, it has obtained such a currency that it is no longer a fraudulent, but a legal payment.

David Fletcher

Whether any of our coins in circulation in any of the countries will turn out to be useful, only time will tell, ... It depends how many people put notes away.

William Shakespeare

Coins always make sound but currency notes are always silent, so when ever your value increases keep yourself calm and silent.

Brigitte Bardot

[Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.

Sammy Cahn

Do you think I'm wandering around all day thinking, 'I must write a song called 'Three Coins In The Fountain'?' Only an idiot would do that.

Kenneth Cox

some of the coins are so rare that I hate to see them go.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLAUDITS, n. Coins with which the populace pays those who tickle and devour it.

Alexander Pope

Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.

Paul Lewis

If we put all the coins in a line on the pavement, it would stretch over 1km down the road.