Elizabeth Moon Quotes

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

Elizabeth Moon

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• Light
• Simple
• Dark
• Ignorance
• Bias

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• The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Light
  • Sky

• Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Light

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Youngest

• My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Always
  • Thought

• Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Man
  • Simple
  • Study

• I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Light

• I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Light
  • City

• My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Simple
  • Religion
  • Kindness

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Light
  • Day
  • Loyalty

• It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career, you know, but I've definitely had my fair share.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Career
  • Know
  • Simple

• When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Past
  • Interesting

• People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • People
  • Good
  • Small

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Light
  • Elite

• The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Work
  • Live
  • Simple

• I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Simple

• I really hate airport queues. I almost feel they should have cattle prods to hurry us up down the aisles. You can't even complain because they might stop you getting on to the flight.

  

  Len Goodman
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Stop

• If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that will see him in court. With 'Shanghai Knights,' he has come through with one of his best. This time, it's personable.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Time
  • American
  • Movie

• It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Writing

• I don't think I'm particularly shy. I just don't like being front and center as myself.

  

  Ben Foster

• There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Simple