To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.
Thomas JeffersonMen blaspheme what they do not know.
Blaise PascalFew people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert EinsteinI am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHuman beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise PascalFor Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.
Desmond TutuSincere words are not fine; fine words are not sincere.
Lao TzuRight now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.
Michelle ObamaEffective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Jim RohnCunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
PlatoWhen I was growing up, there were no women in orchestras. Auditioners thought they could tell the difference between a woman playing and a man. Some intelligent person devised a simple solution: Drop a curtain between the auditioners and the people trying out. And, lo and behold, women began to get jobs in symphony orchestras.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNature is not human hearted.
Lao TzuThe more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillWe as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.
Michelle ObamaTo be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BonoThey say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry PratchettGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac AsimovThe pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
Benjamin DisraeliWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaWe hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.
Friedrich NietzscheAll the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel KantExperience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous HuxleyWar is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillMen who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
HeraclitusA wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
HippocratesYou can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham LincolnA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas CarlyleIf we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy GrahamNo man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil GibranThe art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William JamesTo start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.
Billy GrahamGreat and good are seldom the same man.
Winston ChurchillThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuWe boil at different degrees.
Clint EastwoodAt eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAll my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy GrahamThanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim MattisThe American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
Elizabeth KennyWe are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
EpictetusWhen power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. KennedyI know love is the answer.
DJ KhaledAll the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.
VoltaireSatan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Alexander PopeIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIsn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
Desmond TutuWhen you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
Ernest HemingwayIf you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
Mark TwainThe noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da VinciThe sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo EmersonDon’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!
Maya AngelouWhen we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.
David ByrneLibraries raised me.
Ray BradburyTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
SocratesMy mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya AngelouThose who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
Benjamin FranklinWho has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl JungWe dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost