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Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. -Remy de GourmontAn idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. -Robert FrostNot to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

-Mortimer J. AdlerIdle folks have the least leisure. -John RayFriends . . . the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; butwe have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as muchby our folly. -Benjamin FranklinIgnorance is bliss, and we're in seventh heaven. -UnknownIgnorance is blister. -American proverbIt is scarcely possible to reduce an enlightened people to civil or ecclesiastical tyranny. Deprive them of knowledge and they sink almost insensibly in vassalage. Ignorance cramps the powers of the mind at the same time that it blinds mento their natural rights. Knowledge enlarges the understanding and at the same time it gives a spring to all intellectual faculties which direct the deliberations of the cabinet and the enterprises of the field. -Noah WebsterIf you think education is expensive -- try ignorance. -Derek BokIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solvethem. -Issac AsimovFor an ignorant man, besides being agitated by many ways by external causes. Never enjoys one true satisfaction of the mind, he lives moreover almost unconsciou

s of himself, God and things. -SpinozaIgnorance is not bliss, it is unconsciousness and slavery. -John DeweyAgainst stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain. -SchillerMen are most apt to believe what they least understand. -Michael de MontaigneEverybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. -Will RogersWe don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. -Thomas EdisonTis' the business of small minds to shrink. -Thomas PaineI will not expose the ignorance of the faculty. I will not conduct my own fire drills. -Bart Simpson, writing punishment sentences on chalkboardA man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner. -Norman DouglasI believe I found the cause of my ignorance. -Bruce LeeOur science is indeed a drop, our ignorance remains an ocean. -Mark Kamoelman

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. -Thomas JeffersonTim was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages, so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on. -Benjamin FranklinIgnorance is the root of many of our everyday problems. -Cara BrownBetter be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. -PlatoIn the natural world ignorance is visited as sharply as willful disobedience; incapacity meets the same punishment as crime. Nature's punishment is not even a word and a blow and the blow first, but the blow without the word. It is left forthe sufferer to find out why the blow was given. -Aldous HuxleyEverything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted. -Albert EinsteinThe ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. -Henry Ward Beecher

Argumentum ad ignorantiam.Arguing from ignorance. -Latin QuotationTherefore, having turned over in my mind for a long time this uncertainty of thetraditional mathematical methods of calculating the motions of the celestial bodies, I began to grow disgusted that no more consistent scheme of the movementsof the mechanism of the universe, set up for our benefit by that best and most law abiding Architect of all things, was agreed upon by philosophers who otherwise investigate so carefully the most minute details of this world. -Nicolaus CopernicusDon't be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding,

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who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you. -The Bible, Psalm 32:9.I have one client who wrote a lyric about feeling love that was so special, shewanted to freeze the moment and pop it in the microwave. -Molly-ann LeikinHebrew letters look like barbed-wire, sharp knives. -Karl ShapiroThe vast islands of stars beyond. Like the deadly bullet of a gun, his meaning struck her 'er his words begun. -ShakespeareCame a great calm in which the ships for weeks lay quietly on the boundless ocean like specks upon a mirror. -Francis BaconThe sky is the daily bread of the eyes. -Ralph Waldo EmersonSooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise. -Charles H. SpurgeonSpring locked away in ice. -Janette OakYou can't lie to the camera. -Ronald ReaganAll of the buildings, all of those cars, were once just a dream in somebody's head. -Peter GabrielImagination is vision beyond eye vision. Like a muscle, the imagination strengthens with use. -Milton LomaskI am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is moreimportant than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert EinsteinWe don't dream in dull grey shades, we dream in full, splashy colors. -Rick PitinoImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is

that. He dared to imagine everything. -Henry MillerThere is nowhere the mind can't go. -Samsung CommercialYour brain is the greatest audio/video production facility on the planet. It's capable of producing far more films, epics and short subjects than have been created in the history of Hollywood. -Michael J. GeldWhy does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake? -Leonardo Da VinciTo me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feelflattered when I am told so. What is it that set Homer, Virgil and Milton in sohigh a rank of art? Why is the Bible more entertaining and instructive than anyother book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but mediately to the understanding of reasoning? -William Blake