Ignorantist Quotes & Sayings

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out. — Michael York

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with. — Coleman Barks

I've thought about what is an alternative word to feminism. There isn't one. It's a perfectly good word. And it can't be changed. — Annie Lennox

Most of my time, energy and other resources I use to nurture my projects. — Benjamin Cohen

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting. — Joseph Heller

Its hatred is directed not only against Hindus of the more diverse traditions - the ones that the British, and Rammohan Roy, taught the Hindus to despise - but also, ironically, against the very monotheisms (Islam and Christianity) that nurtured the Hindu insistence that Hinduism is monotheistic. — Wendy Doniger

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.' — Don Cornelius

All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing. — Kenny Smith

We are awakening to that marvelous truth, that Christ is not in the heavens only, nor the atmosphere only, but Christ is in you. — John G. Lake

In hindsight it was an inappropriate reaction — Michelle Gable

I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide. — Molly Ringwald

Without emotion there is no beauty — Diana Vreeland

A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson