“Books are the true means of acquiring talent. If one does not read one remains ignorant, and ignorance can never produce true painters.” -- Francesco Albani
#Book Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Mean Quotes
“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”
“Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance”
“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
“Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.”
“His ignorance is encyclopedic.”
“I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.”
Source : Time magazine, November 01, 1963.
“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.”
“You want to come in and prove yourself early. Obviously, it is a responsibility being drafted that high to come in and play well and to make an impact. If not, youre going to get cut. So you have to come in, make the team, have an impact and do something special. And I feel that, obviously, internally. I feel an obligation to myself to do that but obviously the organization, the fans, this community. I mean, they dont want to see a first-round draft pick be a bust, so I feel I have to come in and hopefully make an impact early.”
“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”
Nicolas Poussin Painter
