Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer. ”

The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man. ”

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. ”

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. ”

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. ”

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ”

The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain. ”

My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal. ”

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking? ”

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. ”