"Is there a wrong way to say "I don't know"? Yes. When we declare ignorance, it should be a) honest and b) in the spirit of opening ourselves up to hearing, to learning, to receiving. When we say "I don't know" under these conditions, the words can forge connection, healing, growth. But when we resist or disavow knowledge, when we profess ignorance as a way of donning armor and evading accountability, then we make a mockery of those words, and we rupture connections not only with others but within ourselves, within our souls."

-- Leah Hager Cohen

#Healing Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Accountability Quotes

“Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads....”
“As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.”
“Acceptance is the act of embracing what life presents to you with a good attitude.”

Source : Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.9, Harmony
“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”

Source : Julia Glass (2002). “Three Junes”, Pantheon
“Alan Pardew has had to juggle his pack”

Source : "'England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers': 3PM's Daft Quotes Of 2011, Part 1". www.mirror.co.uk. December 25, 2011.
“If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.”
“The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.”
“Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.”

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