William > William's Quotes

“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.”
― Thomas Moore

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Photography is truth.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Every edit is a lie.”
― Jean Luc Godard

“Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.”
― jean luc godard

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”
― Jean Luc Godard

“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."

("It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.")”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite