"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."

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Source : "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

Isaac Asimov

#Believe Quotes #School Quotes #Ignorance Quotes

“I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.”
“This is what you get, Maura, for using your DNA to make a baby.”
“The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.”
“Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.”

Source : "Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.
“Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.”
“A terrorist can attack at any time at any place using a range of techniques. It is physically impossible to defend at every time in every location against every conceivable technique of terrorism. Therefore, if your goal is to stop it, you cannot stop it by defense. You can only stop it by taking the battle to the terrorists, where they are and going after them.”
“The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.”

Source : Malorie Blackman (2008). “Knife Edge”, p.288, Random House
“Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.”

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