William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
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All mankind love a lover.
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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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.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
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The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.
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Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
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Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that.
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I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.
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The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.
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The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
