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.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

Zack de la Rocha

When ignorance reigns, life is lost

Zack de la Rocha

If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

Yvon Chouinard

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

Terry Ryan

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Mark Elliott

It has been awesome. It is like a pretty poison. It is doing enormous damage but at the same time it is pretty.

John Zogby

I don't know yet whether he's turning a corner. He's a pretty resilient fellow, so now I think he gets it. But I think a lot of damage has been done to people's view of government and that's not the greatest thing to have presided over.

Wassily Kandinsky

Objects damage pictures.

William Landay

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Veronica Roth

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Bill Hall

In years past if one guy didn't get it done the rest of the inning would get away. Now we have guys one through nine that can get it done, ... There are still some games left to do some damage and maybe get that wild card.

James Lucas

In the long run it is no. No. It will definitely do more damage than that 10 percent to 20 percent it saves you.

Greg Clarke

In the Napa Valley, we seem to do everything bigger, and the flood damage from the storm was no exception.

O. Singh

He is subject to no one else s rule, and the Lord, the King, causes everyone to fall at his feet.

William James

The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god.

William C. Bryant

A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.

Saddam Hussein

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Yani Tseng

I'm just so happy to see my friends and fans in Taiwan, 'cause that's where I'm from.

Moon Bloodgood

With global warming, I'm never going to time-travel. It's probably going to cause some major emission problems.

Jonny Lang

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

Jonathan Sacks

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

Naoto Kan

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.