#under

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#first #first time #give #good #i

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#alone #deduction #intuition #knowledge #must

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#ill #praise #understand #worse #you

Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#always #control #fellow #getting #means

Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#blunder #grief #indulgence #instant #life

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#better #big #big guys #guys #i

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#after #breakthrough #important #leads #like

I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#heads #i #metal #never #school

The right really dominates radio, and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#amendment #dominates #energy #first #first amendment