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Quote by Robert Zemeckis

“You can't legislate sobriety.”

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Robert Zemeckis is an American film director known for his innovative use of visual effects and narrative techniques. His works include 'Back to the Future' series, 'Forrest Gump,' and 'Cast Away,' which have not only been commercially successful but also widely acclaimed. more

“It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply; but it is true likewise, that these ideas are always incomplete, and that at least, till we have compared them with realities, we do not know them to be just. As we see more, we become possessed of more certainties, and consequently gain more principles of reasoning, and found a wider base of analogy.”

Knows May Ideas Reality Found Principles Knowledge Greater Gains Certainty Reasoning Description Possessed Incomplete Exhibits Analogies

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.”

May Might Knowledge Study Retirement

Book:The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

Source: The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ...

“Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.”

People Age Knowledge Deserve Wit All Time Contempt Evident Persecution Censure Impediments

Book:The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..

“The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.”

Numbers Knowledge Waste Research Importance Inquiry Amusement

Book:The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Source: The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

“The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less.”

Knows Stills Views Knowledge Curiosity Perceive Superficial

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”