Damon Knight Quotes

'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'

Damon Knight

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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
  • Knowledge
  • Control
  • Learning

• 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

• We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Lose
  • Two
  • Three

• 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
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Truth
  • Man

• 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
  • Time
  • Family
  • Sister

• His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Ignorance
  • His

• If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Real
  • Fighting

• I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • People
  • Real
  • May

• 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

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Children
  • True

• 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

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Freedom
  • Ignorance

• I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • People
  • Potential
  • Live Up

• We're all born with the capacity to be our best selves - to be who we really are. Then we hear the messages that exist in our fear-based society, and we get beaten down. Being confident means peeling away the doubt, fear, and worry and getting back to our core. Confident people have learned how to get back to their pure selves.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
  • Society
  • Fear

• All the trouble began in 1652 when Jan van Riebeeck landed in the Cape.

  

  Jacob Zuma

• We have to create conditions where people feel safe to feel and to care. That goes against a lot of our programming about how to make something change in the world. Sometimes you can pressure people into changing, you can force them, but the powers-that-be have more force than we do. I don't think we're going to win in a contest of force. I think we need to induce a change of heart. The narrative of "us versus them" is ultimately part of the problem. Traditional activism, which is about overcoming the latest bad guy, isn't deep enough. It just brings us another version of the same.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Heart
  • Guy

• 'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'

  

  Damon Knight
  • Ignorance