Knowing isn\’t doing; doing
Knowing isn’t doing; doing isn’t knowing. Nothing but the knowing and the doing gets it done. Felix Dennis
Knowing Nothing
I am tired of
I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time. F. Scott Fitzgerald
A film is its
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it. David Lynch
The greatest obstacle to
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
To know is to
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. Confucius
Our students wanted to
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for ‘the latest thing’. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring … Read more
If you knew that
If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how would you live? Knowing nothing ‘real’ was at risk, what would you do? You’d live a gigantic, bold, fun, dazzling life. You know you would. That’s what the ghosts want us to do – all the … Read more
Too much openness and
Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you’re not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need. Carl Sagan
But the soul of
But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its … Read more
The Fascist accepts life
The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who … Read more