Edgar Dale famous quotes

There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
-- Edgar Dale

#Ignorance #Affair #Currents

One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed....
-- Edgar Dale

#Stupid #Want #Might

No-one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put into his speech. The expert worries about what he should take out. An artisitic performance is concentrated, has a central focus.
-- Edgar Dale

#Worry #Long #Focus

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
-- Edgar Dale

#Time #Ignorance #History

No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.
-- Edgar Dale

#Long #Worry #Focus

Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.

It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current.

Advice, the smallest current coin.

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.