Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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T. E. Lawrence
What you want, Honey you've got it. And what you need, Baby you've got it. All I'm askingIs for a little respect when I come home.
Otis Redding
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The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.
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Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
William Shatner
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I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.
Richard Scott Bakker
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Frederick Soddy
So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.
Oscar Wilde
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
