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.

Whoopi Goldberg

Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE

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!

Sophie Winkleman

I tried to go to the gym a while ago and hurt my foot. I thought, 'Well, exercise and I just aren't meant to be.'

Bill Walton

It is a big deal, because it is money and it's money we always meant to be able to pay (the state), but the money was never there to pay them.

Jason Statham

What do you mean for a change, mate? ... There are always more people more sinister than myself.

Lorraine Kelly

I think we were meant to be painting outside originally,

Joe Wilcox

It is meant to be an idea factory.

Josh Harding

I went outside and talked to Manny a bit. He said that every goalie has to go through it. It meant a lot for me that he was there.

Carl Jung

What is going on with you?" she says, shaking her head and pushing me away. "What's up with all the love and affection? I mean, you of all people, you of the eternal iPod-hoodie combo.

Carl Jung

It means you got your glow on." He smiled, hovering right alongside me. "It means you're on your way.

Lyndon Ferns

We mean business. We've got nine guys. We want to win the championships, and we showed it tonight.

Sarah MacLean

Men are not nearly as evolved as women are, nor as intelligent, evidently

Vladimir Lenin

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

Ursula K. Le Guin

He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.

Roberto Orci

The higher the IQ the lower the EQ. The more intelligent you are, the lower your ability is to communicate emotionally with people.

Voltaire

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence

Marcel Proust

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Joseph Beuys

Where would I have ended up if I had been intelligent?

Jose Bergamin

We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if its used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think its more effective when its dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.