"I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it."

-- Edward Irving

#Ignorance Quotes #Pride Quotes #Scotland Quotes

“I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.”
“Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.”
“The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.”
“The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.”
“What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.”
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
“Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.”
“It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.”

Source : Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

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