Quotes related to Proverbs 18:15
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
— Edith Wharton
Denied access to information about important arenas of human life, history, and art, women like Augusta Welland demonstrate well into adulthood a lack of moral insight and sympathetic compassion.
— Edith Wharton
Though Harmon Gow developed the tale as far as his mental and moral reach permitted there were perceptible gaps between his facts, and I had the sense that the deeper meaning of the story was in the gaps.
— Edith Wharton
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
— Edmund Burke
Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?
— Edward Welch
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
— Albert Einstein
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
— Albert Einstein
Never memorize something that you can look up.
— Albert Einstein
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
— Albert Einstein
When I was in Marine training I memorised 'The Waste Land,' which was a significant experience in terms of really breaking apart language and thinking about how the different voices in that poem function.
— Phil Klay
I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.
— Leonardo DiCaprio