Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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 -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
Nancy Kress -
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 -
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright -
In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare. I've got a sister who got a first in her degree. We don't sit around watching TV all the time.
Eddie Marsan
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe -
Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.
Dan Simmons -
I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.
Laura Dern -
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson -
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 -
Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.
Ben Carson
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Lord Byron -
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
Bertrand Russell -
All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
John Adams -
Religion, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce -
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood -
Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.
David Gross
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I have an accident about every two years, and one day it won't be an accident!
Edie Sedgwick -
It's just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style.
Yigal Azrouël -
I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.
Johnny Flynn -
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange data and make me realize that I wasn’t as totally isolated in perceiving the world as being monstrous and crazy
William Gibson -
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Thomas Sowell