My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it. -
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person. -
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. -
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
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