If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Only the very ignorant are perfectly satisfied that they know. To the common man the great problems are easy. He has no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is still the arena of those who dream of the City of Man and those who envision a City of Things.… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
To solve a problem is to create new problems, new knowledge immediately reveals new areas of ignorance, and the need for new… — George Porter Copy Share Image
An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed. — John Constable Copy Share Image
There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
George P. A. Healy; "I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant. — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I am not ignorant of what is said of my Lord in the Psalm: "You destroy those who speak a lie." And… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
