Subjects Quotes

• The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

  Ronnie James Dio

  People, Failing, Unpredictability

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

  Aristotle

  Atheist, Believe, Moving

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book V, 1314b.39,

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• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Cities, Atmosphere

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

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• Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  "Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters".

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Education, Work

  The Illiterate Digest "Defending My Soup Plate Position" (1924)

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• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Change, Thinking, Long

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

  Bill Gates

  Ironic, Microsoft, Exam

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• The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.

  Jim Rohn

  Advice, Concentration, Wherever You Are

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 01, 2017

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• Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

  W. H. Auden

  Travel, Artist, Difficult

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• The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Science, Differences, Fuzzy

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.324, Penguin

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• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

  Aldous Huxley

  Truth, Views, Silence

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have lost much by subjecting themselves to what they call the laws and regulations of civilized socieities.

  Tomochichi

  Native American, Men, White

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• The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. There is something demoralizing about going back to a place to retake pictures. You can no longer see your subjects in a fresh eye; you keep comparing them with the pictures you hold in your memory. [The] world was full of discoveries waiting to be made...(as a photographer) I could share the things I saw and learned...you would react to something all others might walk by.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Photography, Memories, Eye

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• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning, and when they cannot, it's a sign our Knowledge of them is very small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a Candle standing by you.

  John Arbuthnot

  Success, Knowledge, Dark

  Of the Laws of Chance Preface

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• A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.

  John Ray

  Memories, Science, Ink

  John Ray (1744). “The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation”, p.278

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• LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Writing, Light, Editors

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.133, 谷月社

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• The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.

  Adolf Hitler

  Education, Science, Men

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• Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Church, Invisible

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Character, Past

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• I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea.

  Milton Avery

  Independent, Unique, Impact

  Milton Avery, Ruth Fine, M. Knoedler & Co (2007). “Magical means: Milton Avery and watercolor”

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• Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

  Janet Malcolm

  Way, Fidelity, Characteristics

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.146, Granta Books

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• Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

  William Morris Hunt

  Rose, Trying, Painting

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Important, Censorship, Kind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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