It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The art (as opposed to the technology) of reading requires that you develop a beautiful tolerance for incomprehension. The greatest books are… — Michael Silverblatt Copy Share Image
Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Photographers have to impose order, bring structure to what they photograph. It is inevitable. A photograph without structure is like a sentence… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“If we don’t readjust our perception in time, the screeching hinges in our mind may break for want of oil and our… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I hope that schools have changed since I was a little girl. My memory of the teaching of the public schools is… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
