Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

When I contemplate the immense advances in sciences and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my life, I look forward with confidence to equal advances by the present generation, and have no doubt they will consequently be as much wiser than we have been as we than our fathers were, and they than the burners of witches

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.

There is but a shallow stream of thought in history.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo-Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries.

I don't think that Americans are ungrateful, not at all. But I do think that we are a young country, and we have a lot to learn.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

Most people do not take heed of the things they encounter, nor do they grasp them even when they have learned about them, although they suppose they do.

The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

White folks are not going to come to see a bunch of guys with tattoos, with cornrows. I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks different, they're stupid.

I know what I'm doing. And I even know when I don't know what I'm doing. Then there are people who don't want to know that you know what you're doing.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.