Quotes By Catogory
“Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head”.
—Michel de Montaigne
“But little did the infant dream that all the treasures of the world were by and that himself was so the cream And crown of all that roundabout did lie.”
—Thomas Traheme
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
―Aldous Huxley
“The source of all the problems in the world is ignorance – the limited view point or narrow mindedness or the conditioned state of mind. As the individual learns the fundamental truths of life and moves up in the scale of life, to that extent his/her ignorance goes away and becomes open/free”.
—Thomas Vazhakunnathu
“Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer”.
—Sir Walter Scot
“It’s a universal law– intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.”
―Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
―George Bernard Shaw
“It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have”.
—James Baldwin
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
―Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance”.
—Benjamin Franklin
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives”.
—James Madison
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
―Mark Twain
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
―G.K. Chesterton
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
―Walter Cronkite
“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
―Benjamin Franklin
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
―Charles Darwin
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
―G.K. Chesterton
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”
―Daniel J. Boorstin
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly”.
—Richard Bach
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
―Harlan Ellison
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
―Isaac Asimov
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realise the extent of your own ignorance”.
—Thomas Sowell
“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education”.
—Stephen Covey
“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
—William Shakespeare
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
—Confucius
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
—Thomas Paine
It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.
—George Eliot
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
—Henry David Thoreau
“Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.”
—Confucius
“Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never heard of.”
—Ralph B. Perry
“If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the most powerful gifts God can give – the ability to influence”.
—Shannon L. Alder
“It is more important to influence people than to impress them”.
—Adrian Rogers
“The ability to influence people without irritating them is the most profitable skill you can learn”.
—Napoleon Hill
“A parent gives life, but as a parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops”.
—Henry Adams
“Maternal love is perhaps the most powerful, positive influence on a son’s development and life. Don’t let anybody convince you that you are irrelevant in your son’s life or that you need to separate from him prematurely”.
—Cheri Fuller
“It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life”.
—Margot Asquith
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations”.
—Beatrix Potter
“The books that influence the world are those that it has not read”.
—G.K. Chesterton
“The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavouring to instil ready-made opinions into his head”.
—Leslie Stephen
“A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives”.
—Jackie Robinson
“The purpose of influence is to ‘speak up’ for those who have no influence. It’s not about you”.
—Rick Warren
“Whether we like it or not, the reality is that our decisions are influenced by a whole host of factors, many of which lay beyond our conscious awareness and control”.
—Nathalie Nahai
“Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room; when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere”.
—TemitOpe Ibrahim
“The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor”.
—Orison Swett Marden
“Leadership calls for changing people’s behaviour. Influencers are those leaders who understand how to create rapid, profound, and sustainable behaviour change”.
—Joseph Grenny
“Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach”.
—David McKay
“Nothing that occurred in your past can have any influence over you except the influence that you allow it to have”.
—Brian Tracy
“In other words, biology deals the cards, but social conditions dictate how the game is played”.
—Ted Gioia
“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority”.
—Ken Blanchard
“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why”.
—Stephen King
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us”.
—Wilma Rudolph
“Don’t be a pepper on the eyes of people; Rather be the salt on their tongue and make a difference that influences their sense of belonging to the earth”.
—Israelmore Ayivor
“Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state”.
—Max Weber
“Leadership isn’t about age but rather, leadership is about influence, impact & inspiration.”
―Onyi Anyado
“Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole”.
—Bernard Law Montgomery
“You don’t have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they’ve taught me”.
—Scott Adams
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. Most people enjoy those rare moments when others make them feel important. It is one of the deepest human desires”.
—Roy T. Bennett
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power”.
—Henry George
“When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens”.
—Michael Badnarik
“Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing”.
—Albert Schweitzer
“Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature”.
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Your minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you”.
—Deepak Chopra
“Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another”.
—Napoleon Hill
“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person’s life in a positive light, and that’s what I want to do. That’s what it’s all about”.
—Tiger Woods
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”
―Pierce Brown
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
―Charles Bukowski
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
―Charles-Louis de Secondat
“Talking about justice, doing injustice is indeed unfair conduct and hypocrisy.”
―Ehsan Sehgal
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
―Ernesto Che Guevara
“Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail but too big to be held accountable.”
―Joseph E. Stiglitz
“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
―Voltaire
“So many wars have been fought and so much injustice has been perpetrated because we’ve banished others from our group and therefore our circle of concern.”
―Dalai Lama XIV
“Injustice on one life is injustice on all lives.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.”
―Democritus
“There is no justice to be had in wanton blind destruction, just more injustice.”
―C.A.A. Savastano
“The trouble was, no one thought about the victims anymore. It was all about human rights for the criminal. Injustice was the name of the game now.”
―Sibel Hodge
“When your bones ignite and your blood boils at the sight of misery, injustice, and hate, that’s when you are truly born as a human.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
―Michael Connelly
“Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder.”
―Rohinton Mistry
“People don’t always get what they deserve in this world.”
―Lemony Snicket
“Change can only be brought about when we have the courage to speak about the injustices we see.”
―Erin Thorp
“And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.”
―Jonathan Franzen
“The human voice is still the most paramount vessel or weapon to use, to uphold justice and to protest against injustice.”
―Sunday Adelaja
“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”
―George Carlin
“Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.”
―Bryant McGill
“I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.”
―Hugo Claus
“The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice.”
―Martha Gellhorn
“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”
―E.A. Bucchianeri
“Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone.”
―Suzy Kassem
“Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonour and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.”
―William Faulkner
“Justice doesn’t mean the absence of injustice; it means the presence of the determination to stand up to injustice.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“It takes great courage to open one’s heart and mind to the tremendous injustice and suffering in our world”.
―Vincent A. Gallagher
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
―Elie Wiesel
“A body at rest stays at rest, a body in motion stays in motion unless it is acted upon by an external force.”
—Isaac Newton
“Innovation is taking two things that exist and putting them together in a new way”.
—Tom Freston
“A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance”.
—Gary Hamel
“What is the calculus of innovation? The calculus of innovation is really quite simple: Knowledge drives innovation, innovation drives productivity, productivity drives economic growth”.
—William Brody
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate”.
—Margaret Heffernan
“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable”.
—William Pollard
“Innovation is the unrelenting drive to break the status quo and develop anew where few have dared to go”.
—Steven Jeffes
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse”.
—Winston Churchill
“Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen’s faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs”.
—Joe Biden
“Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things”.
—Theodore Levitt
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.”
—Albert Einstein
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
—Steve Jobs
“There’s a way to do it better – find it.”
—Thomas A. Edison
“Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.”
—William Pollard
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.”
—Charles Kettering
“Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”
—Dr. Albert, Szent- Györgyi
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results”.
—Albert Einstein
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
—Arthur C. Clarke
“If you look at history, innovation doesn’t come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect”.
—Steven Johnson
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
—J.K. Rowling
“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
—William Blake
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man”.
—George Bernard Shaw
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”.
—Alan Kay
“You can’t allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There’s a need to respect the past, but it’s a mistake to revere your past”.
—Bob Iger
“Success doesn’t necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won’t win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling”.
—Naveen Jain
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate”.
—Jeff Bezos
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but building on the new”.
—Socrates
“If I had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.“
—Henry Ford
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”.
—Steve Jobs
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.”
—Albert Einstein
“Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too.”
—Mark Twain
“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you”.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us”.
—Joseph Campbell
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation”.
—Herman Melville
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”.
—Warren Buffett
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
―Maya Angelou
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all”.
―Walt Disney Company
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant”.
—Robert Louis Stevenson
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'”
—Audrey Hepburn
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”.
—Aristotle Onassis
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination”.
—Jimmy Dean
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”.
—Michael Altshuler
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you”.
—Walt Whitman
“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
―Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
―Langston Hughes
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
―Paulo Coelho
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve”.
—Mary Kay Ash
“Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell”.
—Amal Clooney
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
―Neil Gaiman
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
―Kurt Vonnegut
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants”.
—Isaac Newton
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles”.
—Jimmy Carter
“Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not”.
—Oprah Winfrey
“We live with integrity when there is no separation between our feelings and our actions, our thoughts and our words”.
—Human Angels
“The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office”.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised”.
—Chinua Achebe
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”.
—Bob Marley
“Be Impeccable with Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love”.
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home”.
—Confucius
“To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity”.
—Douglas Adams
“Having a superpower has nothing to do with the ability to fly or jump, or superhuman strength. The truest superpowers are the ones we all possess: willpower, integrity, and most importantly, courage”.
—Jason Reynolds
“We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity”.
—Pedro Capo
“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect”.
—Stephen Covey
“No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them”.
—William Godwin
“Perhaps the surest test of an individual’s integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect”.
—Thomas S. Monson
“You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside”.
—Alan Cohen
“Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins”.
—Edward Kennedy
“Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue”.
—Francis Bacon
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
―Marcus Aurelius
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
―Albert Einstein
“People of integrity and honesty not only practice what they preach, they are what they preach”.
—David A. Bednar
“When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity – regardless of what others may do – you are destined for greatness”.
—Napoleon Hill
“A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come”.
—Denis Waitley
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful”.
—Samuel Johnson
“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity”.
—W. Clement Stone
“It is true that integrity alone won’t make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one”.
—Zig Ziglar
“In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you”.
—Warren Buffett
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“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
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