"The educated man had throughout the ages found……" — Jacques Barzun
"The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish."
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84 Quotes by Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun has 84 quotes on this site.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be…
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the…
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the…
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active,…
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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More Activity Quotes
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one of 1,646 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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