Browsing Quotes, page 61
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Speaker: Dan RatherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:00 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
Speaker: John CagePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.
Speaker: Virgil ThompsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:59 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.
Speaker: Bill NyePosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!’ (I found it!) but 'That’s funny …’
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:58 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Intellectuals solve problems: geniuses prevent them.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Dictionaries are like watches: the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
Speaker: Samuel JohnsonPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Speaker: Phillips BrooksPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Speaker: Honore de BalzacPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Speaker: Charles Evans HughesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Speaker: Alan KayPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Speaker: Steven WrightPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Speaker: Carl JungPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Speaker: Carl SaganPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
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