"When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over."

-- Paul Smith

#Knowledge Quotes #Folklore Quotes

“I was interested in ideas, not in visual products. I wanted to put painting again in the service of the mind.”

Source : "Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp".
“Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.”
“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”

Source : E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”
“What I think I do is to relate any new material to how similar it is to something else. The closest that I can come up with something that's already in my experience, the easier it becomes. All I have to do then is remember where it differs, like relating a chord sequence that comes from some other tune, or several different tunes, or maybe parts of them and then work it from there.”
“If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.”

Source : "Life Lessons". www.theguardian.com. April 07, 2005.
“I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?”
“I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

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