William Shakespeare 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 -
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Larry Kramer -
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
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.
Haile Selassie
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Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke -
All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Abba Eban
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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel Gompers -
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.
Walt Disney -
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
Abigail Adams -
I think U.S. and Chinese businesses need a common language and dialogue.
Jack Ma -
The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
Samuel Butler -
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Oscar Wilde
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You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.
Bernie Mac -
A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.
Karl Marx -
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.
Quentin S. Crisp -
The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!
William Shakespeare