Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Alexandre Dumas

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• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Wealth

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Live
  • Support

• I got to be good friends with Scott Hamilton.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Good Friends

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Learn

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Movies

• I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Good
  • Love
  • Dark

• I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Anxiety

• A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Time
  • Work
  • Period

• I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

  

  Banks
  • Like
  • Emotional
  • Passionate

• I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Alone
  • Grateful

• Let me tell you - when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don't think about breaking records anymore, you don't think about gaining scientific data - the only thing that you want is to come back alive.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Humble
  • Data

• I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Opportunity
  • Story
  • Creative

• I read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' when I was 15. It's one of the things that's shaped my relationship to fame - to endorsements, to selling things.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • Relationship

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Ambition

• The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  

  James A. Baldwin
  • Knowledge
  • Ugly

• To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Learn
  • Philosophy
  • Memory

• You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Memory
  • Results
  • Names

• Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Philosophy