they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything....
When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness. — D.H. Lawrence …... Science quotes on: | Across (32) | Actually (27) | Astronomer (97) | Communicate (39) | ...
Brainy Thought – Salaried ignorance November 15th, 2007 “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Original Author: Upton Sinclair More recently used by Al Gore (born 1948) in the documentary movie “An Inconvenient Truth” ...
“Thousands of immortal creatures,” he told his audience, “are condemned . . . to tread, not what our great poet calls the ‘primrose path to the everlasting bonfire’ but over jagged flints and stones laid down by brutal ignorance.” He contemplated writing a pamphlet to be called “An...
torchlit cave casts a giant on the wall. This happens because the shadow of an object depends on the object, the source of light, the surface catching the shadow, and their relative positions. Therefore, shadows hint at features of their owner without necessarily describing their owner’s ...
Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit. — Nhat Hanh 80 People 'play dead,' too, because...
W. Clement Stone: Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. 11 votes 19 Stumble Over the Truth Winston Churchill: Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. 31 votes 20 Mor...
Mckee responds with an air of unknowing ignorance while Carraway enthusiastically obliges. However, it is the ellipse and the following text describing Nick and Mckee waking up in their underwear together that most readers find to be enough context to determine that Nick is gay in the story. ...
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race. Margaret Sanger Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot. Ashley Scott I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She...
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. —Karl Popper 110 All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real ...