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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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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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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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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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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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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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We have to acknowledge that those past human right abuses existed and so we can't go forward without looking back, and understanding that was enormous problem, not just for America but also problem for the Indonesian people...
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But woe awaits a country whenShe sees the tears of bearded men.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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My dad, well, he sells tractors, just like my granddad, and I'm darn proud of that.
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Hollywood is full of men who need wraparound mirrors so that they never have a moment when they can't check themselves out. I love guys who don't worry about what they look like, who aren't aware of how attractive they are.
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I would really love to go to Thailand as so many people have told me how wonderful it is.
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I think you need to have a strong vision of your own.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
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I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
