Raoul Peck Quotes

Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

Raoul Peck

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• The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Know
  • Ignorance
  • Owe

• 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

• I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Want
  • Fall
  • Complacency

• A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Person
  • Will
  • Disciplined

• 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

• 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
  • True
  • Space
  • Focus

• Knowledge leads to unity, but Ignorance to diversity. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Long
  • True

• Knowledge leads to unity, and Ignorance to diversity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Diversity

• I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Art
  • Small

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The biggest threat to the Internet is, frankly, always going to be complacency. I want to see more and more of us activated and people thinking of themselves as defenders of it.

  

  Alexis Ohanian
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Complacency

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

  

  Chauncey Wright
  • Science
  • Ignorance

• You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Ignorance

• We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make - we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Proud

• Never underestimate your own ignorance.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Never
  • Ignorance
  • Underestimate

• The heartbeat of your originality is deep within a body of thought that continually wrestles with the contradictions and limitations that we're constantly trying to overcome, the curiosities and the ignorances of the people we seek to help.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Ignorance

• Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Realization

• Just try to be yourself and resist complacency and ignorance. All you can do is work, work; work and be disciplined.

  

  Raoul Peck
  • Ignorance
  • Complacency
  • Disciplined