Michael Polanyi Quotes

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Michael Polanyi

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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.

Oren Peli
- Learning
- Challenge
- Luck
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

Gary Locke
- People
- Great
- Music
I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.

Mahesh Babu
- Father
- Dad
- Progress
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke
- End
- Aim
- Noble
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

Walter Kirn
- True
- Happy
- Nature
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

J. William Fulbright
- Long
- Reason
- Problems