"He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know."

-- Georg Simmel

#Learning Quotes #Educated Quotes

“I can't see any point to hanging around a Burger King all day, no matter how much money you make. .... I'll tell you why. Your life would depend on the random desires of people who wanted a hamburger. So you can just forget about Burger King.”

Source : Charles Willeford (2009). “Miami Blues”, p.105, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.”
“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.”
“It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength. [These are shocking words.] It ought not to be one of the forces influencing this or that state. The Church ought to be, if you will, just as powerless as God himself, which does not coerce but which calls and unveils the beauty and the truth of things without imposing them. As soon as the Church begins to exercise power, it loses its most profound characteristic which is divine love [i.e.] the understanding of those it is called to save and not to smash...”
“It takes an enormous amount of energy, creative energy withdrawn from the total economy of the person, to hold a trait underground, and, unfortunately, needs and drives do not go underground alone; they carry with them useful parts of the personality, depriving it of richness and the possibility of a variety of response.”
“I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.”
“I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.”
“Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.”

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