Quotes of: Helen-keller Keyword

I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education.

Richard Dawkins

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

Mary McCarthy

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

David Gemmell

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

Richard Dawkins

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

Richard Dawkins

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

Joyce Meyer

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Emmeline Pankhurst

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

Henry Rollins

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

Desmond Tutu

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

Desmond Tutu

It's a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

Desmond Tutu

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

H. Rap Brown

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

H. Rap Brown

You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs.

H. Rap Brown

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

Jean de la Bruyere

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis