Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-04-06 Apr 6, 2011We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.~ Daniel BoorstinAmong the innumerable mortifications which waylay human arrogance on every side may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonAny formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.~ Hendrik van Loon Apr 5, 2011The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element -- learning.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Apr 4, 2011Education is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.~ Kevin KillionBureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.~ Laurence J. PeterIt were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races.~ Mark Twain Apr 1, 2011Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.~ Abraham LincolnMan will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.~ Benjamin FranklinI came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. ~ Henry David Thoreau Mar 31, 2011As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.~ Calvin Coolidge'Tis impossible to be sure of anything but Death and Taxes.~ Christopher BullockDeath and Taxes, they are certain.~ Edward Ward Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print