Historical Ignorance Quotes

#1. I suspect people would be in for a real shock if they knew the depths of [Obama's] historical ignorance.

Charles Foster Johnson

#2. Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Larry McMurtry

#3. There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world.

Martin Jacques

#4. When we can't see ourselves in our history, we begin to think that we are disconnected and suffering alone. Historical ignorance always precedes cultural imbalances and individual despair.

Aurin Squire

#5. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Richard M. Nixon

#6. Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Try thou not. But do thou or do thou not, For there is no

Ian Doescher

#8. It doesn't become important until you don't have it anymore.

Jenny Han

#9. There were actually very few men who could face reality when the going got tough.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

Alexandre Dumas

#11. MRS ALLONBY You have your looking-glass
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is unkind. I merely shows me my wrinkles.
MRS ALLONBY Mine is better behaved. It never tells me the truth.
LORD ILLINGWORTH Then it is in love with you.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

Chuck Sigars

#13. What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Terence McKenna

#14. We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it's to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake... We always have to go back to pull ourselves out of ignorance or cast ourselves deeper into revenge.

Amy Rachiele

#15. But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

Ann Patchett