"A man only becomes wise when he begins……" — Gian Carlo Menotti
"A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance."
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25 Quotes by Gian Carlo Menotti
Gian Carlo Menotti has 25 quotes on this site.
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Love is born of faith, lives on hope, and dies of charity.
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I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time…
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Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
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Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.
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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out.
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Music is...a form of remembering, a return to the seasons of the heart long gone.
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Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns…
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Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
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Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of…
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I loathe my body. The liver spots, the sagging flesh.
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Writing beautiful melodies is not fashionable because it is very difficult to do.
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It takes a Bobby White to make a tired 90-year-old composer write a song about love.
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More Approximate Quotes
This quote is filed under Approximate Quotes,
one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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The first steps in the path of discovery, and the first approximate measures, are those which add most to the…
— Charles Babbage
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That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and…
— Richard P. Feynman
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause…
— Densey Clyne
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Photography is a contest between a photographer and the presumptions of approximate and habitual seeing. The contest can be held…
— John Szarkowski
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The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even…
— Carl Jung
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking…
— Edward Abbey
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Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute…
— Sandra Boynton
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