He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: ignorance error choice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: God intelligence intellect spontaneity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: wisdom intelligence perspective aging generations Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. —F. Scott Fitzgerald More about this quote Tags: intelligence ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: strength intelligence character intellect soul Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: learning intelligence curiosity certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. —Walt Disney More about this quote Tags: future ideas curiousity progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. —Alfred Whitney Griswold More about this quote Tags: history ideas censorship quality books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. —Howard H. Aiken More about this quote Tags: ideas vision innovation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You cannot find peace by avoiding life. —Virginia Woolf More about this quote Tags: life fear peace risk Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes. That judgment, in turn, must rest upon one’s outlook on life. Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: judgement risk danger safety chance cowardice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future. —Charles Lindbergh More about this quote Tags: future conservation humility resources law ownership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone... and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me — ever. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: wonder potential fame Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. —Jim Morrison More about this quote Tags: feeling poetry perception limits Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles. —H. G. Wells More about this quote Tags: mistakes space perspective catastrophes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email