Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher. ”

I tend to have a lot of songs ready for each record I do anyway. I always have. I was thinking, the more you write, the better chance you're going to come up with a collection of stuff that is going to work together. ”

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. ”

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you? ”

I'm constantly thinking about what I'll do next. I never count on music being a career of longevity. I mean, longevity is key, and I hope that it lasts, but you just don't know, because it's not in your hands, you don't make the decision. ”

Setbacks are just learning experiences. ”

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. ”

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. ”

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. ”

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. ”