Paul P. Harris Quotes

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul P. Harris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 19, 1868 - January 27, 1947

Topics

IgnoranceIntelligenceBetween

I consider a perfect hot dog on the street to be as valid a food experience as dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

Andrew Zimmern

DogFoodExperienceBlueDinnerHot

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

Robert Knepper

AloneThoughtTelevisionNeverFilm

The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.

Robert Mugabe

WelcomeEqualityPeopleWhiteLand

Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.

Michael Imperioli

SuccessQualityPastPeopleBack

How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual?

Michael Ignatieff

WarPeopleAmericanYouInvisible

I think we get a little carried away with ourselves with sports thinking we're more important than everything else.

Stan Van Gundy

SportsThinkThinkingImportantMore

Avoid sloth, the mother of all vices!

Toussaint Louverture

MotherVicesSlothAvoid

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

Rosalynn Carter

WorkDayPeopleThoughtAttention

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

Marvin Minsky

SimpleSmartProblemYouIntegration

The media needs to do some soul searching on itself and ask why they continue to spread provably false stories, and stop projecting their own dishonesty onto others.

Mike Cernovich

SoulMediaStopWhyDishonestyAsk

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

Michael Schumacher

FamilyToughCareerSayLeaveBig

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucille Ball

LifeLearningFaithYourselfBusy

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