Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

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

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Wisdom
  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

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

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• The gifts given to us by God must not be relinquished to those who speak ill of them and who are moved by envy or ignorance.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • God
  • Speak
  • Ignorance

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Ignorance

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

  

  Damon Knight
  • Ignorance

• Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Ignorance

• Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Learning
  • Ignorance

• Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Nature
  • Hope
  • Fear

• The virtues chose Modesty to be their queen.'I did not know that I was a virtue,' she said. 'Why did you not choose Innocence?''Because of her ignorance,' they replied. 'She knows nothing but that she is a virtue.'

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Why
  • She
  • Ignorance

• 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

• 'I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.'

  

  Leonard Bacon
  • Great
  • Small
  • Knowledge

• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Live

• Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.

  

  David Horsey
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Rest

• Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Silence
  • Ignorance

• Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.

  

  Philip Wylie
  • Ignorance

• It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Values
  • Impossible
  • Bases

• She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Heart
  • Strength

• I would like to know more about how to cook Japanese food. I love it, but don't know much about it.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • Food
  • Japanese

• They who can no longer unlearn have lost the power to learn.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Power
  • Lost

• Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Ignorance
  • Steps
  • Admission