Isaiah Berlin Quotes

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: June 6, 1909 - November 5, 1997

Topics

IdeasNewWayResistanceAgainst

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Jimmy Smith

ChallengeBeginningMeThreePlaying

I do feel like the end of 'Mad Men' is a sort of a coming of age.

Jessica Pare

AgeMenEndFeelMadComing

Probably my biggest challenge is not eating all the food that I want to eat sometimes.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

FoodChallengeEatingSometimesWant

When I was 14, I thought, 'How wonderful to be a science fiction writer. I'd like to do that.' I have never lost touch with that ambitious 14-year-old, and I can't help chuckling and thinking, 'You did it, and you did it right.'

Robert Silverberg

ScienceThinkingThoughtHelpYou

I don't really go on what people say so much; I go on their voice. I go on their energy at the time. I go on how close their arms are folded into their chest.

Jeff Buckley

TimePeopleEnergyVoiceGoSay

My ideal day would be to get a good work out in, listen to music, talk to my family and friends on the phone, read and go to a good movie.

Steve Nash

WorkFamilyGoodMusicDayFriends

I think sometimes you need a little more explanation than the characters that you're allowed on Twitter.

Tomi Lahren

ThinkYouSometimesMoreNeedThan

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

Tommy Shaw

MeSisterGrandfatherHimOutPorch

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.

Louis L'Amour

CharacterMeStartSurpriseKnow

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

HappinessEnemyWillVirtueCorrupt

Sometimes I do stuff where people say, 'Why did you do that?' And you know, it's very simple. I do it because I've never done it before.

Christoph Waltz

SimplePeopleYouKnowSometimes

Some people separate their work and home lives, but I love the idea of having my studio and house in the same space.

Cornelia Parker

WorkLoveHomeSpacePeopleHouse

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