"Whatever study tends neither directly nor indirectly to make us better men and citizens is at best but a specious and ingenious sort of idleness; and the knowledge we acquire by it only a creditable kind of ignorance, nothing more."

-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.”
“You cannot demand truth, and then select half and throw the inconvenient remainder away.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “House of Green Turf”, p.144, Open Road Media
“After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error.”

Source : Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.76, Hachette UK
“The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.”
“All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.”

Source : Richard Harding Davis (2014). “With the Allies”, p.17, Read Books Ltd
“A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.”
“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”

Source : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.
“Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.”

Source : "TalkAsia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. August 18, 2004.

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