"He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple -- teach him."

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Source : Lady Isabel Burton (1893). “The Life of Captain Sir Richd. F. Burton”

Isabel Burton

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“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.”
“To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.”

Source : Jane Campion, Virginia Wright Wexman (1999). “Jane Campion: Interviews”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.”

Source : "De divina proportione". Book by Luca Pacioli, June 1, 1509.
“Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, wild-eyed. This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.”
“New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time”

Source : Gottfried Böhm, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1986). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1986, presented to Gottfried Böhm”
“When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.”
“My first song was about the smog over Dublin in the 1980s, so yeah, I suppose I was always socially conscious. My first song was not a love song, it was about smog.”
“Show me a population that is deeply religious and I will show you a servile population, content with whips and chains, ... content to eat the bread of sorrow and drink the waters of affliction.”

Source : Hubert Harrison, Jeffrey B. Perry (2001). “A Hubert Harrison Reader”, p.44, Wesleyan University Press

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