The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
More Quotes from Jacques Barzun:
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.Jacques Barzun
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
Jacques Barzun
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Sadness Quotes, Work & Career QuotesThere's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Laura Miller
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John Schlesinger
An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.
Russell Hoban