"Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured."

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Source : Robert Silverberg (2011). “Up the Line”, p.11, Hachette UK

Robert Silverberg

#Ignorance Quotes

“A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
“No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.”
“Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.”

Source : Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers
“If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.”
“Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.”
“Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races”
“I'm not in the news business and won't tell people how to do their job. I'd like to restore trust in the news business, though, and feel that restoring fact-checking will really help. News business realities mean that such fact-checking has to be practical, it has to be fast and cheap.”

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