“It’s very difficult to dispel ignorance if you retain arrogance.”
(Sam Wilson, in Ken Burns’ ‘The Vietnam War’)
I think this applies both to the effort to dispel another’s ignorance, as well as to thinking your own can be corrected.
Category Archives: Quotes
… favorite sayings …
I’m done…
“I’m done being stupid and worried and dramatic
So i lay down my every disguise
So if ever i can’t see the magic around me
Please take my hands off my eyes.”
(Cloud Cult, “Through the Ages”)
At a crossroads…
“What you are is where you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”
(Buddha)
Nice guys finish first…
“Nice guys finish first. If you don’t know that, then you don’t know where the finish line is.”
(Garry Shandling)
Happiness and purpose…
“Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
(Helen Keller)
The enemy of knowledge…
“The enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
(Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018)
Celebrating all relationships…
“A true soulmate is a mirror, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.”
(Elizabeth Gilbert)
I would add that any healthy relationship can provide a mirror that reflects as well the best of who we already are. Attention to both — to our underlying dignity, and to areas where we could become our better selves — can arouse in us the desire for personal growth.
Nourishing hope…
“Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have meaning…
…Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.”
(Vaclav Havel)
Everyday heroes…
“Great deeds may make heroes; but it is the small deeds, the everyday acts of caring and attention that make friends. And while heroes may inspire us, it is our friends who make inspiration worth pursuing. And so, in the end, the real acts of heroism are simple acts of friendship. So thank you, for being a hero.”
(Sarah Pulscher)
No greater mistake…
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
(Edmund Burke)
