I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself. 664
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength. 2.11K
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. 750
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge. 663
The amount of meetings I’ve been in – people would be shocked. But that’s how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow. 1.34K
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. 833
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don’t find any conflict among them. 1.18K
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation. 638
I don’t have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I’m not that kind of person. 1.28K
When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation. 590
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. 1.29K
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. 776
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor. 2.36K
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. 719
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. 685
