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.

Charles Caleb

Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

C. S. Lewis

He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.

C. S. Lewis

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

Carl Sagan

I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

Honore de

Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance; but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

John Ashcroft

He intentionally selected his victims because of his hatred of women and homosexuals,

Cesar Chavez

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Deepak Chopra

Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.

Abdu'l Baha

If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it...

Bryant H. McGill

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

Ashton Eaton

I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was.

David Bowie

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Ludwig von Mises

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments.

Maurice Maeterlinck

It's good to slowly come to the realization that you understand nothing.

Anne Lamott

I get to tell my truth. I get to seek meaning and realization. I get to live fully, wildly, imperfectly. That's why I'm alive. And all I actually have to offer as a writer is my version of life. Every single thing that has happened to me is mine.

Albert Camus

The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.

Amelia Earhart

Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.

David Platt

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.