"Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 366), 1895.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

#Real Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Progress Quotes

“It's more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you've still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It's like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It's pretty simple.”

Source : "'Only five people know I make tunes'". Interview with Dan Hancox, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.
“I didnt know photography would take me to the places that it has taken me”
“As a team, you need to come from behind every once in awhile just to do it. Good for the attitude. It makes it exciting. And when everybody knows you have to throw it... that makes it fun too.”
“Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.”
“If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog.”

Source : "Animal-Research Labs Increasingly Besieged" by Michael Specter, www.washingtonpost.com. May 30, 1989.
“The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.”

Source : "Norway's tragedy: The sad reality is that terrorists are sometimes homegrown". www.chron.com. July 28, 2011.
“If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media
“It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.”

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