Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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
-
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
-
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
-
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
-
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould
-
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
-
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
-
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
Vanna Bonta
-
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
-
Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.
Ramakrishna
-
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
-
'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'
Damon Knight
-
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
Bertrand Russell
-
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce
-
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
I believe every change any word has undergone probably originated in ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
-
We believe that the Statue of Liberty is an important symbol of freedom for our country. And as film director Martin Scorcese, who is involved in the Statue’s latest fundraising campaign, said, what is most impressive is not just what the Statue of Liberty represents for Americans but really what it represents to the whole world.
Kenneth Chenault
-
Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don't like.
Courteney Cox
-
Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.
Ali Hewson
-
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Stephen Covey