QUOTES OF THE DAY 12-14-11

“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.”
― Molière

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.”
― Voltaire

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“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 that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus

“When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.”
― Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions

“Ignorance is ultimately the worst enemy of a people who want to be free.”
― Jonathan Hennessey, The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation

“It is better to be silent and thought to be ignorant then to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.”
― R. G. Risch

“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
― A.R. Bernard

“The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.’s in man’s ignorance.”
― Michael Lewis, Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street