“No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“My 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 Angelou, facebook.com
“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge, an argument an exchange of ignorance.”— Robert Quillen, philosiblog.com
“I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”— Karl Popper, en.wikiquote.org
“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”— Marie Curie, amazon.com
“It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”— Helen Keller, facebook.com
“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“But the more Vox persists, the less hope there is for American politics. The Vox model is premised on the idea that people shouldn’t think for themselves, that the important parts of political thought and decision-making should be outsourced to experts. Inevitably, these experts will produce solutio…”— Nathan J. Robinson, currentaffairs.org
“there’s nothing wrong with admitting you were once toxic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you made a couple people feel like shit. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you fucked up and were horribly arrogant and parasitic. there’s nothing wrong with admitting you did anyone wrong, especially i…”— harzburgite, taashasayword.tumblr.com
“The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com