Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. F. Skinner

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

Bernie Taupin

I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.

Bernard Berenson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Bertrand Russell

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

Bertrand Russell

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Bertrand Russell

The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.

Benjamin Franklin

...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins...

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star

Confucius

Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

Cole Younger

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Donna Air

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

David Foster Wallace

I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

Leslie Mann

I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Bill Wyman

Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.

Bill Gates

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

Donald Miller

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

Saurav Ganguly

Our record in finals is an issue we're trying to forget about and tomorrow is a new start,

Chuck Michaelson

Our focus is to have success as a team. They love to see their teammates get in the finals just as much as themselves.

Anju George

I will look to make it to the finals first and will not go full pelt in the qualifying jumps.

Gordon Tietjens

I think they thought they just had to go out, put some points on and play the finals later on. You'd have to feel for Japan, they made all the play.

Mike Polz

It doesn't get any better than to have five guys in the finals and one of them your son while your other son is also down here. We're very fortunate since things have gone very well for us. They're great kids and they've wrestled hard.

Darin Dollemore

Junior had a great day making it into the regional finals ... that was big.

Mark Fox

He can't work out or communicate with them until the finals are over. Only I can set that up right now.

Jade Gribble

He is taking up some new styles. I just showed him a new offensive shot and he had three takedowns in the finals with it for six points.

Fred Russell

I hated finals week. Finals week was 24-7 quiet hours, which meant no serious guitar playing for a week.