Nicholas A. Basbanes Quotes

The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.

Nicholas A. Basbanes

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Nobody
  • Room

• The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Stage

• It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • World
  • Gold

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Einstein said that 'the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.' So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?

  

  Leonard Bernstein
  • Music
  • Why
  • Experience

• I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Light
  • Sun

• It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • Important
  • High

• I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Travel

• In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

  

  Joe Swanberg
  • Trying
  • Relationship

• The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • God
  • Believe
  • Free

• People who commit crimes should be responsible for those crimes. It doesn't matter whether they're priests or ministers or atheists.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • People

• I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

  

  Chuck Connors
  • Good

• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Now

• English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.

  

  Ben Miles
  • Great
  • History
  • Guy

• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Useful

• Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?

  

  Quino
  • Amazing
  • Drawing
  • Pencils

• The transmission of knowledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.

  

  Nicholas A. Basbanes
  • Knowledge
  • Civilization
  • Transmission