“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession” - their ignorance.
Hendrick Willem Van Loon
“How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?”
Lois McMaster Bujold
“In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.”
Edward Abbey
“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
Ulysses S. Grant
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Everything that must be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
André Gide
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”
Helen Keller