Robert Hewison Quotes

If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people - more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true - in certain rare, isolated cases.

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

… the best way to aid the human being to emancipate himself is to educate him

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

I tried without much success to learn a little of the humanities and the arts, but even passing the courses in art history and music history was a challenge.

I love to look at beauty.

The 10 years of theatre prepared me not only as an actor but also as a human being. It gave me the habit of reading, watching, and preserving.

People have drawn me, which is super cool. I'd love to print some out and put them on my wall.