History Quote by Philip Pullman Download Open image “All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.” — Philip Pullman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Human life Humans Life Struggle Stupidity Wisdom
The more often a stupidity is repeated, the more it gets the appearance of wisdom. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Stupidity is sufficient unto itself. Wisdom can never learn enough. — Mechthild of Magdeburg Copy Share Image
...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published… — Tim Bray Copy Share Image
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Stupidity is not an unfulfilled wisdom. Stupidity is an unique product on its own. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
As far as humanity is concerned the origin of stupidity is itself. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“One should never underestimate the role of stupidity in history” — Ervand Abrahamian Copy Share Image
We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The state of mind which I put myself when I tell a story is one in which superstition flourishes very easily. And I welcome… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
All the stories of the Bible that I know came to me first from my grandfather's lips... He would see stories in everything. He… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of what we… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it? — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“The question authors get asked more than any other is "Where do you get your ideas from?" And we all find a way of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, “or die of despair.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
