"The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn."

-- Bernard DeVoto

#Knowledge Quotes #Dawn Quotes

“Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.”
“Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.”
“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.”
“Thus we can see that â€“ at least at the level of economics â€“ democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.”
“Watch what happens on Twitter. One thing leads to another very quickly. And in an ironic sense, even though it's such a democratic form of communication, there's a funny way in which it leads to a hardening of a conventional wisdom much more quickly than might happen if you were reflecting on it a little more.”
“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”

Source : "Neither Liberty, Nor Safety" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1989.
“I might be celibate, but I appreciate the wonder of the sacrament of marriage.”
“I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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