“General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.”
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Wise Quotes — page 164 of 916
“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”
“Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.”
“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.”
“I don't think anywhere is there a symbiotic relationship between caddie and player like there is in golf.”
“I've learned through experience of playing different characters, some of whom were jerks, that when you play a character who is pretentious or obnoxious, in any way, it's important to knock them down a peg.”
“Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.”
“If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.”
“Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.”
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
“I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.”
“When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.”
“I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.”
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”
“Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death”
“I do not feel that the West has really become less condescending toward foreign cultures than the Greeks and Romans were: it has only become more tolerant. Mind you, not toward Islam—only toward certain other Eastern cultures, which offer some sort of spiritual attraction to the spirit-hungry West and are, at the same time, too distant from the Western world-view to constitute any real challenge to its values.”
“The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.”
“Patience is eternal genius”