John Maurice Clark quotes

John Maurice Clark quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.”
-- John Maurice Clark

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“It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous facts.”
-- John Maurice Clark

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“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.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co
“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.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”

Source : Song: True Believer, 2008
“Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord.”
“That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.”
“All history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values.”
“A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.”
“There are two instruments worse than a clarinet - two clarinets.”
“If you play an instrument, it makes you a better singer. The more you play, the better you sing, the more you sing, the better you play.”

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