Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Economy
  • Cards

• Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Effort
  • Create
  • Class

• I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Men
  • Women
  • Hope

• More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Materialism

• Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Hope
  • Down
  • Unknown

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Sports
  • Back
  • Go

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Like
  • Feel

• Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Leader
  • Pressure
  • Division

• We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Government
  • Democracy

• First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.

  

  Pat Roberts
  • You
  • First
  • Intelligence

• But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• We only work four days a week, we only work three weeks out of the month, and we get four months off for the summer. So there's plenty of time for me to spend with the kids.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • Shadow

• Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

  

  Esther Duflo
  • Children
  • Want
  • Upset

• We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

  

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

  

  Saadi
  • Life
  • Men
  • Learning

• We forget that Socrates was famed for wisdom not because he was omniscient but because he realized at the age of seventy that he still knew nothing.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Wisdom
  • Forget
  • Realized