"History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power has destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again."

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Source : John D. Barrow (1992). “Pi in the sky: counting, thinking, and being”, Oxford University Press, USA

Carl Sagan

#Ignorance Quotes #People Quotes #Lust Quotes

“I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.”
“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”
“As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.”
“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”
“It takes a bee to get the honey out”

Source : Arthur Guiterman (1924). “A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets”, New York, E.P. Dutton [1924]
“In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For example a smile can mean you're amused, happy, grateful, or satisfied. You can smile to comfort someone. You can smile because you're content or because you're in love. A grimace or a grin look similar to a smile, but they mean entirely different things. Imagine trying to teach someone how to smile. Imagine trying to describe what different smiles mean and when, precisely, to use them in conversation. It's harder than learning to walk.”
“The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.”
“... truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another ...”

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