Flora Lewis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
-- Flora Lewis

#Learning #Thinking #Different
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
-- Flora Lewis

#Philosophy #Democracy #May
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
-- Flora Lewis

#Civilization #Degrees #Different
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
-- Flora Lewis

#Trying
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.
-- Flora Lewis

#Moving #Way #Kind
Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.
-- Flora Lewis

#Truth #Trying #Substance
There were the days of so-called free love ... but it didn't take long to discover that love is not free. Sooner or later it exacts its price.
-- Flora Lewis

#Love Is #Long #Free Love

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
It's the presence of others who are smarter, kinder, wiser, and different from you that enables you to evolve. Those are the people to surround yourself with at all times.

Flora Lewis famous quotes

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