"One way in which fools succeed where wise men fail is that through ignorance of the danger they sometimes go coolly about a hazardous business."

-- Richard Whately

#Wise Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes

“If you don't have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey.”
“The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung.”

Source : Jeffrey Sachs (2011). “The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime”, p.388, Penguin UK
“Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.”
“A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.”
“Matching character and actor is what a good director does.”

Source : "Marrakech Film Festival Masterclass: Bruno Dumont Gives Tips on Editing, Directing Actors and More" by Eric Hynes, www.indiewire.com. December 4, 2013.
“The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.”
“I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.”
“I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.”

Source : John Godfrey Saxe (1871). “Poems”, p.297

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