"There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave."

-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

#Ignorance Quotes #Two Quotes #Goal Quotes

“My father was a television director, and I always knew I wanted to be in the industry, but I had thought my role was behind the camera as opposed to in front.”

Source : "Philip Glenister: My family values". Interview with Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.
“I want to get a handle on the music. There's only so much you can do alone. I want everyone else there. I can't wait until we feel we've got it down and we can really figure out what it's all about! I can't wait to meet Harvey Keitel, too! I'm so used to working with musical theatre people... I'm really curious how he works. He's the only one that doesn't sing in the show - he acts and weaves himself through the show as the ring-master. I hope I learn something from him.”
“I am afraid we are little better than straws upon the water; we may flatter ourselves that we swim, when the current carries us along.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.279
“I think smart aggregation is a service to readers. And we do it, too ... . Whether it's a politics page and you want Dan Balz to tell you what is he reading, what does he think are the smartest articles today on the elections or the primaries. So, I think aggregation is great ... . So I'm all for aggregation. And the more eyeballs we can get to our content, the better. We do want readers to be educated and to understand the difference between, what is a source that you can trust as opposed to just rumors out there. And the difference between just repurposing content and not crediting it.”

Source : Interview with Julie Moos, www.poynter.org. May 23, 2010.
“War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.”

Source : William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.20, tredition
“Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.”
“The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.”
“I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation,”

Source : "Delp suicide note: 'I am a lonely soul'", www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 17, 2007.

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