Important Quotes - Page 38

• Legal documents have mistrust written all over them. It's unfortunate, but the human DNA is so tuned to kind of taking you for granted that we tend to protect ourselves legally. That's why I don't read them as, if I read them, I will go soft. To me, the human relationship is far more important than the professional bond I share with anyone.

  Karan Johar

  Dna, Kind, Granted

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• Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

  Leo Tolstoy

  Giving, Answers, Meaningless

  "Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy". Book by Lynda Walsh, p. 90, 2013.

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• How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Doubt, World, Quarrels

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• Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Would Be, Easy, Important Things

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.41, Taylor & Francis

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• It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Two, Sides, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• It is to be emphasized that no matter how many [amplitude] arrows we draw, add, or multiply, our objective is to calculate a single final arrow for the event . Mistakes are often made by physics students at first because they do not keep this important point in mind. They work for so long analyzing events involving a single photon that they begin to think that the arrow is somehow associated with the photon [rather than with the event].

  Richard P. Feynman

  Mistake, Thinking, Arrows

  Richard P. Feynman (2014). “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• The most important thing I found out from my father is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Beautiful, Father, Discovery

  "No Ordinary Genius". Book by Christopher Sykes, p. 28, 1994.

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• A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

  John Dewey

  Progress, Use, Facts

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.37, 谷月社

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• The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Needs, Literacy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.349, Routledge

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• There are two threats to reason, the opinion that one knows the truth about the most important things and the opinion that there is no truth about them. Both of these opinions are fatal to philosophy; the first asserts that the quest for truth is unnecessary, while the second asserts that it is impossible. The Socratic knowledge of ignorance, which I take to be the beginning point of all philosophy, defines the sensible middle ground between two extremes.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Two

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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• Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.

  Allan Bloom

  Way, Recognition, Life Is

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 18, 1990.

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• I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today I welded a perfect seam and I signed my name to it." And I said, "But, Daddy, no one's going to see it!" And he said, "Yeah, but I know it's there." So when I was working in kitchens, I did good work.

  Toni Morrison

  Father, Names, Daddy

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from Dec 12, 2011

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• One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Hate, War

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• I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

  Bill Gates

  Believe, Program, Operating Systems

  OS/2 Programmers Guide, November 1987.

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• The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Life, Pondering

  "Arrowsmith". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1925.

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• I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Men, Forever, Inquiring

  Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.359, PublishDrive

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• The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.

  John Wooden

  Teacher, Squad, Roles

  Interview on "Charlie Rose Show", archive.org. June 14, 2000.

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• I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

  Molly Quinn

  Thinking, Play, People

  "Molly Quinn Talks SUPERMAN: UNBOUND, Voicing Supergirl, Narrating Audio Books, Favorite Genres and Her Wish to Be a Live-Action Batgirl". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 5, 2013.

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• The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

  Angela Braly

  Opportunity, Challenges, Risk

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• So often in my life I've been with people and shared beautiful moments like travelling or staying up all night and watching the sunrise, and I knew it was a special moment, but something was always wrong. I wished I'd been with someone else. I knew that what I was feeling - exactly what was so important to me - they didn't understand.

  Julie Delpy

  Beautiful, Night, People

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• Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Simple, Simplicity, Sound

  Twitter post from Feb 22, 2017

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• For me, what is most important is the element of surprise. If I can surprise you with every film of mine, that is exactly what I am trying to do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Trying, Elements, Surprise

  "A Minute With: Arjun Rampal on 'Satyagraha'". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, in.reuters.com. August 21, 2013.

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• Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but those are a fraction of the impacts of transportation and building energy use. If we need to choose priority actions, the most important things are to densify, provide transit, and green the buildings.

  Alex Steffen

  Talking, Cities, Impact

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