Arts Quotes

1445 Arts quotes by 1046 unique authors

Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening… — Rajneesh
'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but… — Thomas Jefferson
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance, or to extinguish the desire of fond… — Samuel Johnson
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. — John Milton
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all… — George Bernard Shaw
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in… — Ernst Haeckel
At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was… — Aristotle
Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science]. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible… — Thomas Hobbes
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world? There is a march of… — Charles Lamb
The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but may… — William Blackstone
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
Congress shall have Power . . . to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Time to Authors and Inventors… — James Madison
From that night on, the electron-up to that time largely the plaything of the scientist-had clearly entered the field as a potent agent in the… — Robert Andrews Millikan
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but… — Henry David Thoreau
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere… — Albert Einstein
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. — Mae Jemison
The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is… — William Whewell
We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that… — Spike Lee
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush
The arts have a development which comes not only from the individual but also from a whole acquired force, the civilization which precedes us. One… — Henri Matisse

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