"Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge."

-- Klemens von Metternich

#Ignorance Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax Justice of the Peace] since I have been at Home. I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”
“Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.”
“There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.”

Source : Louis J. Camuti, Lloyd Alexander (1962). “Park Avenue Vet”
“If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record”
“But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.”
“When you value people, you give them freedom.”
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
“I am addicted to arrivals, to those innocent dawn moments from which history accelerates.”

You may also like:

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour
Italian Statesman
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Francois Guizot
French Statesman
Giuseppe Mazzini
Italian Politician
Louis XVIII of France
Monarch
Maximilien Robespierre
Lawyer
Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Commander
Napoleon III
French member of Parliament
Otto von Bismarck
Statesman