Steve Alten famous quotes

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  • Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

  • The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

  • His ignorance is encyclopedic.

  • Much of our ignorance is of ourselves. Our eyes are full of dust. Prejudice blinds us.

  • The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.

  • The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  • Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

  • I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

  • I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness

  • Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.