“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

topic:stupidity ignorance misery

QuoteImageAI

To create a beautiful custom image, click the button below to use it online for free

Free To Use Download Image

“It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the President’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Kurtz—it was ordered I should never betray him—it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had willingly abandoned those places in which she would at least have been able to see him whom she loved, for others where he had never trod.”

― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way

“You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“And my father! —oh, my father! evil is it with his daughter, when his grey hairs are not remembered because of the golden locks of youth!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“There ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue. There’s just stuff people do.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I ain't such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“That's the thing about a human life—there's no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”

― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.”

― A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Recommended Topics

violence need patience democracy language poetry satisfaction way interest vanity teaching sun hiding travel hell existence grief eternity relationship stars

© Copyright 2025 QuoteImageAI