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"I prefer my oysters fried; That way I know my oysters died." Roy G. Blount, Jr. 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The study of history is the beginning of political wisdom." Jean Bodin 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are." Ludwig Boerne 3.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong." William J. H. Boetcker 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." Bokonon 4.1538 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." Lee C. Bollinger 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle." Erma Louise Bombeck 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 3.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 4.8667 average rating Rate this Quote
"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin Rate this Quote
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"What makes the difference between a Nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the difference. Honesty, knowing right from wrong, openness, self-respect, and the courage of conviction." David L(yle) Boren 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things." Hal Borland 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason." Hal Borland 3.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees." Hal Borland 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." Phyllis Bottome 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart." Elizabeth Bowen 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." General Omar Nelson Bradley 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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