“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.”
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Wise Quotes — page 67 of 916
“Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”
“Since my subjects have always been my sensations, my states of mind and the profound reactions that life has been producing in me, I have frequently objectified all this in figures of myself, which were the most sincere and real thing that I could do in order to express what I felt inside and outside of myself.”
“The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.”
“Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
“Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while they are only visualized more clearly than any other figures in imaginative literature... He was in the rank in which we set Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe.”
“Intuition is one of the four basic psychological functions along with thinking, feeling,and sensing.”
“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”
“He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.”
“I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.”
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
“With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.”
“I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.”
“We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
“Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.”
“She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed.”
“Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.”
“During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.”
“There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.”