Duty Quote by Anonymous

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness…

— William Dean Howells

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an…

— William Kingdon Clifford

A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

— Anonymous

What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is…

— Eric Hoffer

Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant,…

— Ralph Bunche

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

— Samuel Johnson

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

— Lord Chesterfield

“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so…

— Daniel Quinn