Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A lot of times you see really good-looking guys on TV and you sort of assume that maybe there's some sort of… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
But the universe, as a collection of finite things, presents itself as a kind of island situated in a pure vacuity to… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Ignorance is mere privation by which nothing can be produced: it is a vacuity in which the soul sits motionless and torpid… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity. — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Although some people think women are inferior to men, I think it's a privilege to be a woman. There are so many… — Jessica Angelina Birch Copy Share Image
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity — George Steiner Copy Share Image
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity… — Elena Kagan Copy Share Image
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically)… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Of all the people expressing their mental vacuity, none has a better excuse for an empty head than the newspaperman: If he… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music,… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
