Ralph Ellison Quotes
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'File and forget.'
Ralph Ellison
Quotes to Explore
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Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
Katee Sackhoff
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
Nancy Gibbs
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
Frances Wright
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I always had this dream to act: so much so, even as a child, I used to take part in Ram Leelas.
Ashish Sharma
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As a kid, I think people would have described me more as a goofball, or being energetic. But I always loved parodies; I loved spoofing things.
Noel Wells
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'File and forget.'
Ralph Ellison