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One Quotes by Neil Postman
- A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.
- Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance…
- It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or,…
- A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
- School has never really been about individualized learning, but about how to be socialized as a citizen and as a human being, so that we,…
- The line-by-line, sequential, continuous form of the printed page slowly began to lose its resonance as a metaphor of how knowledge was to be acquired…
- The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on…
- People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -…
- Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
- The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In…
- Remember: in order for a perception to change one must be frustrated in one's actions or change one's purpose.
- Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle