Loren Eiseley Quotes

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

Self-complacency is the companion of ignorance.

It is a dangerous thing to be satisfied with ourselves.

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

The biggest mistake to me is complacency.

One who is shy will never gain knowledge, nor one who is proud.

I don't want to be complacent.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

If you already think you are correct and there's nothing else you can learn in life, then I think you are in trouble.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

No one but a fool is always right.

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.