mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination
S. Spencer BakerTags: imagination humour ignorance mystery
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Phyllis McGinleyTags: wisdom knowledge marriage ignorance compromise
we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood
William JamesTags: wisdom knowledge belief ignorance
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Helen SimonsonTags: wisdom kindness knowledge living ignorance
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know...
Neil GaimanIgnorance is the world's most curable affliction.
Jeri Smith-Ready[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
Zbigniew BrzezińskiTags: foreign-policy ignorance populism american-exceptionalism geopolitics american-people
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
Zbigniew BrzezińskiTags: foreign-policy ignorance americans populism geopolitics
We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans
Zbigniew BrzezińskiTags: politics ignorance americans populism
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots KNEW!
Friedrich NietzscheTags: politics intelligence christianity religion atheism ignorance new-testament bigotry politicians atheists bigots
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