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.

Shereen El Feki

Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.

David Menlow

There is a vein of distrust in the marketplace for many big deals. They are viewed not as a safe haven, but a financial bailout for the issuers and the shareholders of the parent company.

Tom Daschle

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

Juliana Hatfield

You can feel that in the music, just the unease and the distrust of the things that satisfy people, and make people feel good.

Amelia Barr

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Andrea Riseborough

Fear is the enemy. I distrust it. Any feeling or decision I make that might be motivated by fear I quickly reassess.

Richard Shelby

It is overreaching, bureaucratic nonsense like this that makes people distrust and resent government,

Dan Hall

I've got to confess, I've always had this distrust for the whole industry. Maybe it's horror stories about people with garages full of Amway products.

Idries Shah

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

O. J. Simpson

Resilience is really about collaboration and mutual understanding,

Craig Woker

It is also getting an arms-length relationship with its own mutual funds.

Ted Menzies

I think you're going to see a totally different rapport with the Americans, rather than name-calling. I think it'll be a treatment of mutual respect.

Alexander Haig

A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.

Alexander Hamilton

Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

Colin Powell

We are not dictating. We are not telling them [Saudi Arabia] how they should do it or who they should look like. We are their friends. We have mutual interests and we will help them in any way that is possible.

Gerald Grinstein

Without Atlanta, there would not be a Delta. And without a Delta, there would not be the same Atlanta. You could say we are in a mutual nonaggression pact.

Jamie Rodriguez

We have a mutual respect for each other competing. We would never sit on each other and make someone else do all the work. That's just kind of like a runner moral.

Doris Lessing

Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.