Veneration Without Understanding Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings and end to everything.

Euripides

#3. Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.

Margot Asquith

#4. Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.

Elizabeth Enright

#5. In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Fanny Howe

#6. Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

Kara Lindsay

#7. It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.

Samuel Reshevsky

#8. Sponsors obviously care more about a ninety-second commercial and want to pay you more than any guest star gets for a ninety-minute acting performance.

Barbara Stanwyck