Samuel Butler Quotes

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

KnowledgeDangerousWantLittleAlso

The fact is safe co-sleeping is not difficult. The notion of babies being smothered is simply not true. And the benefits of sleeping together are profound.

Mayim Bialik

TogetherTrueSleepingDifficult

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

Andy Warhol

ArtEnoughMeaningLongYouLook

I do not want America to default on its debt.

Jeb Hensarling

AmericaWantDebtDefault

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.

Stephen Colbert

HateActorEveryoneIllusionsBlow

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.

Simone Weil

PainPresentLyingHatredWithout

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Roger Penrose

BeautyThinkWonderSeriousMorality

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

Rod Serling

ImaginationMindLimitsOnlyThose

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronald Steel

WorldLookingGenerationLookLens

I have spent more nights with Roberto Carlos than all of the women I have been married to put together.

Ronaldo

WomenTogetherMoreBeenThanSpent

I always felt that, when I saw Denzel or Viola do scenes in their past films or past projects, that if it's a heavy scene, and it's requiring a lot of emotional weight, that we would have nothing but silence and incense burning in between takes just to keep things quiet.

Jovan Adepo

PastSilenceQuietNothingEmotional

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

FutureLiveInnovationExerciseYou

I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.

Derek Walcott

TimePoetryWriteSameAlwaysLike

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