Marlene Dietrich - I love quotations because it is a joy to find th

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

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Dietrich, Marlene. Marlene Dietrich's ABC. Doubleday, 1962.

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Leonardo da Vinci

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Joseph Roux

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

James Geary

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

Gustave Flaubert

Read in order to live.

Richard Cecil

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Gretchen Rubin

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

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A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Sharon Creech

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

Charles Morgan

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

Voltaire

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

There was the beginning of a major debate in the advanced countries over the notion of copyright to protect authors and knowledge being a public property. The solution for America and most nations was to allow copyright protection for the specific expression of the knowledge but not the knowledge itself. You cannot copyright an idea or the laws of science—just the way they are expressed. Therefore all are free to discuss the knowledge and also write about it.

George Savile

A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.

1st Marquees of Halifax. This is a very important quotation because it still has much validity today. The “Prince” is the Monarch, King or Official Heading the State. Savile points out that if the Price does not take the time or make the effort to understand an issue and its complexity, he then must trust his advisors and their opinions rather than have any intelligent and knowledgeable views of his own. In modern times the advice applies to elected officials, executive and legislative. If they do not take time and make the effort to understand a complex issue, they cannot use their own judgment but must accept the judgment of staff, friends, colleagues, party leaders, lobbyists or members of committees who they hope are not also ignorant. In modern legislatures, there are so many different issues in so many areas, that it is very difficult to have the time to make the effort to study all the issues. This problem is compounded with politicians as they tend to spend large amounts of their time fundraising for their next election and simply do not have enough time to study issues. In the Congress for example, most members vote on bills that they have not even read and they end up trusting someone else’s judgment.

Janet Mock

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Sylvia Plath

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Samuel Johnson

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Alexander Hamilton

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Paulo Coelho

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Zig Ziglar

Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!