"We are taught words, not ideas."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Education Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Taught Quotes

“What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?”
“I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If women had never been given the right to vote, then Labour would have won every election after the war.”
“If I have to move on from Newcastle, hopefully it will be to somewhere else”
“When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.”
“With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?”
“She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence whoâ€™d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim.”
“Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.”

Source : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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