#aught

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#arriving #been #first #knowledge #lessons

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. ↗

— Robert Englund

#bridges #fresh #how #jeff #keep

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#bloom #burst #go #happen #hope

I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward. ↗

— Doug Collins

#forward #i #mind #one thing #pass

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. ↗

— George Eliot

#forsake #helpful #human #more #pity

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#because #call #dad #father #game

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. ↗

— Black Elk

#doing #just #learn #learned #like

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#architecture #art #between #bottom #bottom line

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#i think #place #school #should #taught

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups. ↗

— Patti LaBelle

#because #downs #had #happy #i