Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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• Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Work
  • Real
  • Done

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Ignorance
  • His

• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal, and you will also have bliss. The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance. The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• Vietnam is about halfway around the world from Washington. It's as large as the major European nations, with nearly 130,000 square miles... Its ancient recorded history goes back to 111 B.C... We entered (that country) with considerable ignorance.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• 'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'

  

  Damon Knight
  • Ignorance

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth! For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now when you know in all your black hearts that this be fraud - God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • God
  • Men
  • Together

• Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Long
  • Red
  • Ignorance

• If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Ignorance
  • Mysterious

• Racism springs from ignorance.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Ignorance
  • Racism

• We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

  

  Mary Astell
  • Up
  • Education
  • Ignorance

• If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

  

  Rumi
  • Nature
  • Person
  • Ignorance

• We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

  

  Edgar Schein
  • Society
  • Ignorance
  • Relationships

• Statesmanship … must consider first the fortunes of the common people. No statesman has a right to risk these fortunes unless he be reasonably assured of success.

  

  John Buchan
  • People
  • Success
  • Risk

• Patience is the mother of joy.

  

  William Logan
  • Mother
  • Joy
  • Patience

• Donald Trump said that even though he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare, he might want to preserve some parts.

  

  George Stephanopoulos
  • Parts
  • Preserve
  • Repeal

• Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Ignorance
  • Jugglers