"It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past"

-- Ken Burns

#Inspiring Quotes #Past Quotes #Arrogance Quotes

“A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.”
“I'm not afraid of anything.”

Source : "Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years". p. 67. Book by Michel Allard, Jean-Marie Robine, Victor Lebre, 1998.
“Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.”

Source : Daniel Starch (1914). “Advertising: Its Principles, Practice, and Technique”
“If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.”
“Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.”
“Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.”
“All words, in every language, are metaphors.”
“it's important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it's a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.”

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