China, Past and Present (1972) Ch. 6
„Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.“
— Robert Browning English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812 - 1889
Not Browning, but a misquotation from Pearl Buck's China, Past and Present: "Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked".
Misattributed
„One should never forget, that society would rather be amused than instructed.“
— Adolph Freiherr Knigge, buch Über den Umgang mit Menschen
Vor allen Dingen soll man nie vergessen, daß die Gesellschaft lieber unterhalten, als unterrichtet sein will.
Variant translation: Above all, we should never forget that society would prefer to be entertained, than taught.
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
— Martin Buber German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian 1878 - 1965
Quelle: Eclipse of God: Studies in the Relation Between Religion and Philosophy (1952), p. 6
„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variante: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
— Mary Renault, buch The Charioteer
Quelle: The Charioteer
— Louis L'Amour Novelist, short story writer 1908 - 1988
Quelle: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Antwerp Belgium, Winter 1886; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 453), p. 38
1880s, 1886
— Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005
Quelle: 1930s- 1950s, Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959), p. 144
„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
— Jacques Barzun Historian 1907 - 2012
"A Surfeit of Fine Art" (1986), p. 127
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Kontext: The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.
„Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.“
— Will Cuppy American writer 1884 - 1949
The Hermit's Emergency Shelf
How to Be a Hermit (1929)
— Aldo Leopold, buch A Sand County Almanac
“April: Sky Dance”, p. 32-33.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"
Quelle: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
— Stendhal, buch The Charterhouse of Parma
Comme on craint peu de choquer la vanité, on arrive fort vite en Italie au ton de l'intimité, et à dire des choses personnelles.
Quelle: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 6
— David Pearce (philosopher) British transhumanist
" The Abolitionist Project https://www.abolitionist.com/", Talks given at the FHI (Oxford University) and the Charity International Happiness Conference, 2007
„Ah, Lord, if I doubt You, it is perhaps because You hide Yourself so well.“
— Jack McDevitt, buch The Hercules Text
Quelle: The Hercules Text (1986), Chapter 4 (p. 63)
