Quotes
Authors
Myles Horton

"I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are making a big mistake. Those who refuse to share their knowledge with other people are making a great mistake, because we need it all. I don't have any problem about ideas I got from other people. If I find them useful, I'll just ease them right in and make them my own."

Source : Myles Horton, Paulo Freire, Brenda Bell, John Gaventa (1990). “We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change”, p.235, Temple University Press

Myles Horton

#Mistake Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.”
“How did Mike Bibby get on the team? Any Cub Scout with Boy Scouts can do Boy Scoutish things. When Bibby was in the Cub Scouts, he was a Cub Scout. When he was with Vancouver, nobody heard about him. Now that he's with Sacramento... he's on the team. I ain't going.”
“I think my films are always quite self-reflexive and always question 'why am I doing this, is this the right way to do it, what is cinema for, does it have a purpose?”
“A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.”

Source : M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.768, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”
“I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.”
“I just devoured all of his [Buster Keatonâ€™s] films because his sense of comic timing was amazing. Heâ€™s the closest a human being has ever come to a cartoon character. And I was just amazed at his sense of character and timing, the humor. It's all just soâ€¦sophisticated, even when you watch it today.”
“In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.”

You may also like: