A. A. Gill Quotes, Art Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

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The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.

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When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

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Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

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The more I know the less tortured I am.

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Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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True words seem false.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

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We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

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The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

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