Benjamin Whorf Quotes

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.

Benjamin Whorf

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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

Gareth Gates
- Music
- Business
- Best
The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Oliver Tambo
- Country
- Happy
- Free
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F. H. Bradley
- May
- Help
- Nature
There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

Irvin Kershner
If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?

Zhang Zhidong
- Man
- Learning
- Horse
You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

Xenophon
- Country
- Peace
- Fire