"The public is wiser than the wisest critic."

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Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.417

George Bancroft

#Public Speaking Quotes #Critics Quotes #Wiser Quotes

“I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.”
“I'm a bargain shopper.”
“If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.”
“The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.”
“The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.”
“I run me like a conglomerate, because that's what I am.”
“It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.”
“The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature”

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