Sophocles Quotes
Knowledge must come through action.
Sophocles
Quotes to Explore
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
Vicky McClure
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
Zhang Zhidong
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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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In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
E. Stanley Jones
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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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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It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama.
Adam McKay
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
Finn Wittrock
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Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.
Jackie Chan
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
Camille Paglia
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
Ralph Ellison
