Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

A right delayed is a right denied.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

He who hath many friends hath none.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, ‚Truth is the daughter of Time.‘

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Never confuse motion with action.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.