"If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all."

-- Marvin Minsky

#Knowledge Quotes #Way Quotes #Understood Quotes

“I think as a kid I always liked to listen to people. I loved hearing stories.”
“The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.”
“Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.”

Source : Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.178, Macmillan
“People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.”

Source : Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.321, Hachette UK
“Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.”
“I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.”

Source : Elizabeth Scott (2011). “As I Wake”, p.116, Penguin
“The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.”

Source : "Exclusive - Bones and Landscapes Inspire Danish Queen's Art". Interview with John Acher, www.reuters.com. January 26, 2012.
“It's like .Â .Â . time is flowing backward. We're caveman archeologists in the ruins of the future.”

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