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“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Play Form Artist Sound Knowing Taken Subjects Goes On Art Is Representation

Author:Plato

“Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear.”

World Should Soul Whole Term Accepting Knowing Subjects Possibility This World Acceptance Humility Materials Ego Disappear Destroyed Totality Vicissitudes

Author:Simone Weil

“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.”

“As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.”

Knows Humans Knowing Subjects Human Life Touching Obscurity Brevity

Author:Protagoras

“Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.”

May Reason Able Knowing One Thing Subjects Bias

Book:Explaining Social Behavior

Source: Explaining Social Behavior

“I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.”

Thinking Mean Persons Might Knowing Subjects Fronts Photograph Landscape Involvement Snapping

Author:Frans Lanting

“A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?”

People Ifs Men Should Humans Children Important Government Law Father Knowing Wise Atheism Subjects Wind Positive Atheism Folly Republic Contempt Legislature Prerogative Very Wise

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.”

People Persons Ideas Used Accepting Knowing Subjects Effects Objects Ordinary Concepts Rejects Acquaintance Beneficial Propose Ordinary Person

Author:Anuj

“Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but theyare without our fears; they are subject like us to death, but without knowing it; even most of them are more attentive than we to self-preservation, and do not make so bad a use of their passions.”

Self Use Passion Knowing Subjects Advantage Humankind Preservation Deprived Brutes Self Preservation

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.”

Desire Knowing Journey Subjects Selling Not Knowing Desire To Learn

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“For me, at least, studying my subjects first and knowing them personally was essential to taking a good picture.”

Firsts Knowing Study Subjects Essentials

Author:Gisele Freund

“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.”