It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Africa will thrive.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Well begun is half done.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.