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.

Beck

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

Carrie Brownstein

You do have to live through things, and to live through things is to observe want, and to observe lacking. Even if the hunger is a curiosity.

John Cornyn

Just because we are curious does not mean that our curiosity should be satisfied,

Bertrand Russell

I have throughout been curious about how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness.

Tom Hatch

It is not suited either to all kids or all parents. It requires students with considerable curiosity and independence, who come up with and get interested in questions and can sustain some interest in them.

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Chris Landsea

Fortunately, Zeta is more of a curiosity than a life-threatening event.

Daniel Cohen

When the moment of truth came, when we entered the city, I was no longer afraid: my curiosity overcame the fear.

Laura Bush

I think it's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous comment, that's what I think.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Lord Shaftesbury

Nothing is more ridiculous than ridicule.

Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Edward Abbey

Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

Donald Judd

If a chair or a building is not functional … it is ridiculous.

Daniel Craig

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Dylan Moran

I've lived in the UK for longer than I lived in Ireland. I'm not worried about myself, but it's ridiculous for youngsters.

Anais Nin

He understands my pity for his ridiculous, humiliating physical necessity.