Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Demosthenes

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Ben Jonson

All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome

David Nicholls

She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

Jean Fontaine

Well, my friend, get me out of danger. You can make your speech afterwards.

Charles Spurgeon

Remember that thought is speech before God.

Camille Paglia

If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Literature is the immortality of speech.

Dennis Miller

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

Charles Spurgeon

The only reason why anything virtuous or lively survives in us is this, 'the LORD is there'" (Ez. 35:10)

Ahmed Chalabi

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

David Henry Hwang

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Avril Lavigne

And suddenly you're all i need the reason why I smile<3

Catherine Opie

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs.

Bram Stoker

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Ashleigh Brilliant

One possible reason why things aren't going according to plan is that there never was a plan.

Benjamin Disraeli

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Alexander Lebed

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.