“There's a different film being made in every mind. And of course, the star of the film is the mind, the personality, the self.” InspirationalMindMadeDifferentSelfFilmCoursesStarsIgnoranceBuddhismPersonality Author:Frederick Lenz
“The stars in the sky last for billions of years. That's nothing to the mind, nothing. It's an instant, a millisecond. The mind shines radiantly forever. But we don't see the shine because of the clutter.” YearsMindLastsStarsForeverSkyIgnoranceShiningBillionsInstantClutterStars In The Sky Author:Frederick Lenz
“When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.” NeedsStarsNatureIgnorancePaintingTerriblePaint Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.” ImportantHumanityLostStarsIgnoranceBurdenIgnorantFollyThriveSuperstitionsSpace ExplorationAtheisticJuvenileJuvenile Justice Author:Isaac Asimov
“As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.” GivingHumansMayLightStarsKnowingGreaterIgnoranceMoonBibleScriptureIgnorantSpotsLuminous Author:Robert Boyle
“Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.” PeopleKnowsWorldShouldReasonEarthChristianHeavenStarsSituationLaughingIgnoranceDistanceSizeScriptureCertaintyNonsenseOffensiveEmbarrassingScornOrbitUnbelieversDisgraceful Author:Saint Augustine
“I remembered a time when my grandmother had asked me to explain television to her - the guts, not the funny pictures. There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat. This be treason in an age when ignorance has come into its own and one man's opinion is as good as another's. But there it is. As Star says, the world is what it is - and doesn't forgive ignorance.” MenWorldYearsAgeStarsEasyOpinionTelevisionIgnoranceTaughtLessonsTenMassForgivingRememberedGutsGrandmotherOne ManSweatMy GrandmotherSkullsTreason Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!” PeopleMenBelieveStillsUseHomeStarsCitiesMillionsDarknessMagicCenturyIgnoranceGeniusHundredMediumsPilotsMechanismReservesElectricityMovie StarMiraculousTwentieth CenturyPeasantsSweatersSavagerySkyscraperAviatorExorcismAmuletsMagic Powers Author:Leon Trotsky