If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors.
Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.
I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is ignorance made visable.' 'And do Men despise ignorance?' I asked. 'No,' he said, 'they prize it above all things--all things!--but only so lo...
I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and students who do know the field, meanwhile, have every r...
It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day. The natural philosopher walks amid enigmas, always striving to understand and always half-understandi...
We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inad...
Then I think of Charlie and our first New Year’s apart, and how I miss him. I miss him so much, but it’s confusing, because I missed him long before he was dead, and that’s the bitch of it all. I missed him long before he was dead.
On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and ...
Every major movement in world history has recognized the strategic importance of mobilizing children. The Nazis had their Hitler Youth bands. The Chinese Communists had their Red Guards. The Taliban in Afghanistan had their madrash schools to instill...
...But that is a method for cowards; the brave man goes out into the hall, comes back with a stick, and says firmly, "You have just deliberately and cruelly exposed my ignorance before this company; I shall, therefore, beat you soundly with this stic...
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I ...
Gun Store Owner: Andy, get him out of here now! Dorri: [to Farhad] Go, wait in the car. Farhad: [to Gun Store Owner] You are ignorant man! Gun Store Owner: I'm ignorant. You're liberating my country, and I'm flying seven four sevens into your mud hut...
Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are ...
Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.
Theology is ignorance with wings.
Ignorance never yet helped anybody.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Kagura: It’s the same as always. He doesn’t pursue those who leave, and ignores those who come.
