Civilization Quote by Henryk Sienkiewicz

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

War is a specific product of civilization.

— Lewis Mumford

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

— Bertrand Russell

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

— John Hughlings Jackson

There must be a marsh in the brains of these men or there would not be so many frogs of wrong ideas gathered in…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the…

— Jim Henson

“Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“There is every reason why the standards in our civilization are so low, because we have "poisoned," in a literal sense of the word,…

— Alfred Korzybski

If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a…

— Stephen Chow

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

— Clayton Christensen

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but…

— Laurel Nakadate