#ows

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#intellectual #knows #man #more #necessary

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#asks #daughter #different #every #explanations

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#consciousness #his #knows #more #psychologist

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#canceled #getting #gigs #having #long

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#different #every #every man #fellows #genius

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement. ↗

— David Bohm

#actual process #attention #careful #further #itself

He who knows himself best esteems himself least. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#himself #knows #least #who

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#field #knows #made #mistakes #narrow

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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