Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The original reason to start the project, which was that the Germans were a danger, started me off on a process of action, which was to try to develop this first system at Princeton and then at Los Alamos, to try to make the bomb work.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

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

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

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

When you have enough understanding and compassion in you, then that amount of understanding and compassion will try to express itself in action. And your practice should help you to cultivate more understanding and compassion.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

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

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

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

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.