Umberto Eco Quotes
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
Quotes to Explore
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The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.
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When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors - you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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I'm shy, and I can hide behind my acting and discover the truth about myself because it's cathartic in that way. But I tend not to read reviews.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
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Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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If you desire ease, forsake learning.
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Head Start has been a key component of health, nutrition and early learning opportunities since the 1960s.
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I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence.
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I was interested in truth from the point of view of salvation just as much as in truth from the point of view of scientific certainty. It appeared to me that there were two paths to truth, and I decided to follow both of them.
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I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
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True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.
