"Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be."

-- Nicholas of Cusa

#Ignorance Quotes #Men Quotes #Zealous Quotes

“Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let the players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If, therefore, man has come into the world to search for God and, if he has found Him, to adhere to Him and to find repose in adhering to Him-man cannot search for Him and attain Him in this sensible and corporeal world, since God is spirit rather than body, and cannot be attained in intellectual abstraction, since one is able to conceive nothing similar to God, as he asserts-how can one, therefore, search for Him in order to find Him?”
“Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.”
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!”
“Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.”
“Popularity can be a real headache.”

Source : Michele Jaffe (2010). “Rosebush”, p.237, Penguin
“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

Source : "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2008.

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