"Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change."

-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Ignorance Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Worry is just about the worst form of mental activity there is.”
“I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Not greeting people isn't enough. One also doesn't greet people one doesn't know.”
“Being gay is not a political accomplishment in itself. It's not enough to constitute a political platform.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“Nature is my springboard. From her I get my initial impetus. I have tried to relate the visible drama of mountains, trees, and bleached fields with the fantasy of wind blowing and changing colors and forms.”
“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
“it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.”

Source : Mary Martha Sherwood (1835). “The history of Henry Milner”, p.273
“Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.”

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