“The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.”
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Thoughtful Quotes — page 173 of 303
“You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.”
“If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with”
“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”
“One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.”
“I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'”
“I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.”
“My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.”
“Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.”
“Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.”
“[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.”
“The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.”
“Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.”
“That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone.”
“I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.”
“When a new book appears one should read an old one.”
“One ought to be just before one is generous”
“I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.”
“My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.”
“If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless.”