Top 40 Ocampo Quotes
#1. Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#2. Even a quick reading of Rizal's trial will prove that those who take Constantino's works uncritically are likewise guilty of "Veneration Without Understanding." Since there is so much fiction and faction in history it is always essential to return to the sources.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#3. These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#4. I was to discover that like the overcoat that snugly wraps Rizal in all his statues and photographs, Rizal is obscured by countless myths and preconceived ideas ... Without his overcoat, Rizal was human, like you and me.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#5. I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.
Mary Shelley
#6. Mahirap ngayon ang educational system. They're out for the degree, not knowledge.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#7. Make your children unhappy so they can face the world, but then, what is a world without children's laughter?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#8. When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.
Silvina Ocampo
#9. The American actor is very lucky ... Because so little is asked of him.
Sanford Meisner
#10. School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#11. What matters is what we write: that is what we are, not some puppet made up by those who talk and enclose us in a prison so different from our dreams.
Silvina Ocampo
#12. Sometimes it pays not to be interested in what happened but in what did not happen.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#13. A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.
Sharon Stone
#14. Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.
Chris Sullivan
#15. History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#16. Love is the demiurge that builds substance from the elements of our lives.
From "Big Enough for the Entire Universe
Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
#17. Rizal is a compulsory course in school, but few teachers make Rizal's novels interesting. If students are taught to enjoy Rizal's works as literature instead of as a lodemine of 'patriotic' allusions I am sure they would not mind reading and rereading the 'Noli me Tangere'.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#18. Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.
Benjamin Haydon
#19. As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#20. We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#21. Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.
Victoria Ocampo
#22. The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.
Nora Roberts
#23. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#24. You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#25. I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#26. It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#27. Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
Thomas Hoving
#28. Reading gives us the furniture of our minds. Reading can spell the difference between independence and slavery; liberation and isolation. Without reading, our history would have turned out differently. Reading made and shaped our heroes. Reading liberates.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#30. A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#31. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#32. If there was anyone ma-porma during the Fil-American War, it was Heneral Goyo.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#33. He knew as well as I did that you cannot release a girl from her promise to love a man. She either gets herself free or she is bound for life.
Philippa Gregory
#34. On the surface, there is no distinction between our experiences - some are vivid, others opaque; some are pleasant, others cause agony upon recollection - but there is no way of knowing which are dreams and which are reality.
Silvina Ocampo
#35. I could get used to anything-that is, not really get used, but somehow voluntarily consent to endure it
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. The life of an adoptee is like an ancient voyager who searches for the unknown. The stars guided their destiny. They had their sights on the wonders that lay ahead of them. An adoptee travels in the opposite direction.
Diamond Mike Watson
#39. Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.
Emile Durkheim
#40. Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
