Sharisse Tracey Quotes & Sayings

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's ignorance.

To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of this great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in a measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation. — George Spencer-Brown

I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful. — Leni Zumas

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one. — Thomas Jefferson

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown. — James Marsden

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. — Ambrose Bierce

A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo! — Avijeet Das

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it. — Ho Chi Minh

I was interviewed for a Grammy television show, and they asked me about Nashville, and I talked for three minutes and when I finished, I was teared up. The whole room was crying. Nashville has given me a home, where I never had a home before. — Janis Ian

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me. — Mike Nichols

Judge that boy if you must; for debauchery, for objectifying innocence ... but before you finalize your verdict, oh innocent reader, I beg you to scan again that last stanza. What you and I overlooked in our cloud of perversion and nasty objectification was the unrestrained joy of a little girl playing dress-up for the very first time. — Jake Vander Ark

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There are a few things that you can do that will yield better results than doing a whole lot of other things. — David Cottrell

But everything is a cost-benefit analysis, isn't it? 'Do I want this badly enough to pay the price? — Kit Rocha