"Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance."

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Source : Steve Alten (2010). “The Loch”, p.14, Macmillan

Steve Alten

#Ignorance Quotes #Cockiness Quotes

“All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”
“He was never without misery, and never without hope.”
“At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.”
“It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.”
“Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentiment and intellectually dishonest emotion?”
“The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some tremendous increases in innovation, especially in the clean energy sector.”
“Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?”
“If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'”

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