Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 59

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).
 Alberto Giacometti
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
 Arianna Huffington
A free mind and a free market are corollaries.
Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
 Bre Pettis
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
 Scarlett Johansson
It is not envy or malice, as so many people think, but utter despair that has persuaded many educational reformers to recommend the abolition of the English public schools.
 Peter Medawar
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
 Rollo May
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent.
 Heraclitus
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Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.
 Bill Joy
Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won.
 Juan Manuel Santos
Be content with what you have Be satisfied with your dwelling place to accommodate your enterprise, Restrain your tongue, And shed tears of regret regarding past sins you committed knowingly, and those you do not recognize.
 Abdullah, Son of Masud
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
 Thomas Hobbes
The world moves, but we seem to move with it. When I studied physiology beforethere were two hundred and eight bones in the body. Now there are two hundred and thirty- eight.
 Ellen Swallow Richards
Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
 Marquis de Sade
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Once you have access to the source of creation within you, your health and wellbeing will naturally be taken care of.
 Jaggi Vasudev
Do we recognize the platform that Indian cinema has been given? Of course. And typically India of us, we gracefully acknowledge our host's grace and we thank you for celebrating us and our cinema.
 Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.
The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.
 Guy Davenport
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.