Ernst Gombrich Quotes

Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Ernst Gombrich

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• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • School
  • Help
  • High

• When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Father
  • College
  • Challenge

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Taken

• We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Job
  • Kids

• I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Kids
  • Today
  • College

• In college, I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony, which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center, and that's where I got my agent.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Career
  • College
  • Kind

• The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• The disconnected impressions which we derive from life form a kind of knowledge ‘in growth,’ as Bacon called it; an over-early and peremptory attempt to digest this knowledge into a system tends, as he suggests, to falsify and distort it.

  

  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• 378. Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Knowledge

• Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

  

  James D. Watson
  • Knowledge

• I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • People
  • College
  • Football

• I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Life
  • College
  • Football

• As a college freshman with an on-campus job, I was delivering paperwork to the engineering department one day. There, I encountered two department assistants whose faces lit up with the hope that I was a prospective student. I hadn't come there to enroll, but their reactions piqued my interest.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hope

• I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Reality
  • Knowledge

• The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Future
  • Journey
  • Sad

• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Eye

• Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • What Matters