Jacob Bronowski Quotes

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

Jacob Bronowski

• World
• Action
• Contemplation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Books
  • Shame

• The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • World
  • Today
  • Earth

• What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • World
  • Trying
  • Done

• In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • World
  • Man
  • Humanity

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • World
  • Think
  • Best

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • War
  • End

• One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • American
  • Tradition

• I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

  

  Dan Rosensweig
  • World
  • Country
  • Money

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • May
  • Problem

• I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Action
  • Always
  • Human

• It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.

  

  Aileen Lee
  • People
  • World
  • Awesome

• No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• China frequently confounds stock market prognosticators because it has a penchant for straying markedly from other broad global indexes year-by-year over the decades - even from emerging markets. It's hit or miss.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Stock

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Action
  • Contemplation