Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

William Shakespeare

Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Aristotle

To be ignorant of motion is to be ignorant of nature

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Don Cheadle

I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

David McCullough

Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.

Chip Conley

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Marc Berman

We've already seen what (Clark) looks like. The curiosity factor is gone.

Edmund Burke

Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You see, but you do not observe.

Jamie Hyneman

We have relatively little time and a whole lot of curiosity, so the most efficient way to get there is what we do, and that often happens to be some form of science.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Curiosity is thought on its entering edge.

Benny Carter

I didn't know Charlie Parker well, but I spent some time with him, and he was articulate and well-spoken with a lot of curiosity about music and the world. But the only way he seems to be depicted is as a junkie. And that's not the full picture.

Alan Kay

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

Charlie Haas

You should be able to have good matches against anybody.

Brian De Palma

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Bram Stoker

We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!

Don Bluth

You've got to be able to make animation for much less... Less is not the studio's way.

Dave Chappelle

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Carl Sagan

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Bryan Singer

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Jason Behr

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant