Isaiah Berlin Quotes
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
-
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.
-
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
-
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
-
As I've said before, time is short, and life is precious.
-
I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
-
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.
-
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
-
She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
-
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.
-
I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
-
Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
-
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
-
I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
