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"Ignorance" - There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.- Goethe

Abraham Lincoln: It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. Albert Einstein: Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. Blaise Pascal: You always admire what you really don't understand. Daniel J Boorstin: The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. Dorothy Thompson: One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in. George Eliot: Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. Henry B. Adams: Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Henry David Thoreau: A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, an

Life & Living life.

A. Powell Davies : Life is just a chance to grow a soul. Abraham Lincoln: And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.                                               Alan Bennett: Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. Albert Camus: All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.                                        Albert Einstein:                                        Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. Alice Walker: Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Anais Nin: Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is

Love and been loved

Love and Been Loved; we all are in its quest.  What is love? These are a few quotes that I believe will summons it all. "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." -- Sarah Bernhardt  ."A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous." -- Ingrid Bergmen "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you." -- Ibn Abbad "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." -- Margaret Anderson "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." -- Aristotle "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life." -- Aphra Behn "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." -- Sarah Bernh