"Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself."

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Source : Arthur Symons (1924). “The collected works of Arthur Symons”

Arthur Symons

#Vision Quotes #Veils Quotes #Able Quotes

“One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.”
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
“Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.”
“There are rumours of fractions within the Palace dressing room.”
“You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.”
“You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.”
“The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As we become increasingly aware of the ethical problems raised by science and technology, the frontiers between the biological and social sciences are clearly of critical importance-in population density and problems of hunger, psychological stress, pollution of the air and water and exhaustion of irreplaceable resources.”
“The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.”

Source : Joshua Nkomo, SAPES Trust (2001). “Nkomo: the story of my life”

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