"Fullness of knowledge always and necessarily means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance, and that is always conducive to both humility and reverence."

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Robert Andrews Millikan

#Ignorance Quotes #Mean Quotes #Humility Quotes

“Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'”
“I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.”

Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. December 18, 2008.
“In a relationship the details are everything because they remind you - just when you need to be reminded the most - why you fell in love with someone in the first place.”

Source : "His 'n' Hers". Book by Mike Gayle, 2004.
“Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.”
“Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”
“I never approach a character from a negative place.”

Source : "The Natural" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.
“It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the easy approval of friends and of neighbours than to risk the friction and the controversy that comes with public affairs. It is easier to fall in step with the slogans of others than to march to the beat of the internal drummer - to make and stand on judgements of your own. And it far easier to accept and to stand on the past, than to fight for the answers of the future”
“Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.”

Source : Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.34, Hachette UK

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