Subjects Quotes

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

A dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.

If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

Project your mind into your subject until you actually live in it.

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

[Lord Brougham's writings on the bee's cell contain] as striking examples of bad reasoning as are often to be met with in writings related to mathematical subjects.

Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

I'm afraid the negative things are always the great subjects. Failure is much more interesting than success.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

Men are suspicious; prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

One should be wary of talking on end about such subjects as learning, morality or folklore in front of elders or people of rank. It is disagreeable to listen to.

There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.

I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with any spark of vitality.

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.

Subject is known by what she sees.

Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects that interest me and there freedom of speech comes into it.

MONARCH, n. A person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion to learn.

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

The teacher who knows the most about a subject isn't necessarily the one who can teach it best.

That's a huge subject - a writer refusing to do publicity but writing about publicity.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

The subjects felt more comfortable if they played the role than if they had to be themselves.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

We tend to associate humor with lightheartedness, but really, it's a rhetorical mode than can be applied to any subject. It was through researching Chechnya that I came to understand this.

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.