Isaiah Berlin Quotes
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Quotes to Explore
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
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True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
