"Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots"

-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Roots Quotes #Humanity Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.”

Source : "Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere". Book by Michael Kimmelman, 1998.
“I myself am a person who has never resigned myself, who is absolutely never resigned, who canâ€™t imagine it at all. I simply observe, and I observe in so many people, and often very quickly, a resignation that terrifies me, thatâ€™s it.”
“The most important people at Liverpool Football Club are the people who want to be here.”
“I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didnâ€™t quite see the street you were in, and didnâ€™t quite hear everything that was said to you. Youâ€™re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?”
“If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.”
“Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.”
“I felt a little green, because Shakespeare writes the thought process within the text; it was tricky not to think of what to say and then say it, and instead just deliver the lines.”
“I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.”

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