John Berger Quotes
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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We were descended from royalty.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
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What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.
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There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences.
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The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.
