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.

Juergen Thumann

Such proposals take us back to the dark ages.

Harry Reid

Our unified response sends a powerful signal to victims of this tragedy, looking for signs that their government sees their plight and stands with them during this dark time,

Brandon Gray

Pirates of the Caribbean' was, at its root, a fun swashbuckler. 'King Arthur' was dark and dank. They forgot the fun.

Brandon Gray

'Pirates of the Caribbean' was, at its root, a fun swashbuckler, ... 'King Arthur' was dark and dank. They forgot the fun.

D. H. Lawrence

Man's ultimate love for man? Yes, yes, but only in the separate darkness of man's love for the present, unknowable God.

Behati Prinsloo

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

Bede Griffiths

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I trailed off.Patch leaned lazily against the counter. Dark hair flipped out from under his ball cap. A smile tugged at his mouth. My thoughts dissolved and just like that, a new thought broke the surface of my mind. I wanted to kiss him. Right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

Adam Howard

Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing something.

Yiddish Proverbs

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Frank Anzures

Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.

Grant Wilson

Robert was a shining light in a day of unrelenting gloom.

Dan Wheeler

Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

Beck

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.