Eye Quote by Francois Arago

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

— James Russell Lowell

Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the…

— Charlie Munger

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him the hidden…

— Auguste Rodin

The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, 'unity' of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: 'The…

— Roland Barthes

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to…

— Honore de Balzac

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish…

— William Shenstone

One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we…

— Thomas Paine

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst…

— Alan Hollinghurst