Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

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

Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.

Source Unknown

Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

Bill Vaughan

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Jena Malone

If they made 'Pride & Prejudice 2,' Lydia would become more of a tragic figure,

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Deepak Chopra

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Abdu'l Baha

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Aleister Crowley

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

Andy Murray

I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

Alice Walker

I'm the most stubborn person I know.

Edmund Hillary

I was incredibly stubborn.

Edward Gibbon

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

Tim Lappano

We're still going to be stubborn about that.

Jeff Bezos

To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.

Jeff Bezos

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

George F. Kennan

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.