Advantage Quote by Thomas Sowell

Civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most of the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

— Ezra Pound

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant…

— Samuel Johnson

The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

— Anonymous

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any…

— H. L. Mencken

Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

— Cullen Hightower

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

— Meridel Le Sueur