« All Knowledge Quotes · Susan Sontag's Page
Knowledge Quotes by Susan Sontag
- To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like…
- I must remain always, both in principle + actively, interested in everything. Taking all of knowledge as my province.
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have...
- To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have;…
- Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with the feelings that…
- I perceive value, I confer value, I create value, I even create — or guarantee — existence. Hence, my compulsion to make “lists.” The things…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Research is creating new knowledge. — Neil Armstrong
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for,… — Thomas Arnold
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov