A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Quote by Kenneth Clark

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No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

No nude, however abstract, should fail to arouse in the spectator some vestige of erotic...

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of...

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It...

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle...

Ruthless, greedy, tyrannical, disreputable they have had one principle worth all the rest, the principle...

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they...

...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they...

The covetous man is ever in want.

The covetous man is ever in want.

Avarice is always poor

Avarice is always poor

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we...

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we...

Not everything you want is everything you really need. The standard of society is motivated...

Not everything you want is everything you really need. The standard of society is motivated...

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

Fraud is the daughter of greed.

A greedy father has thieves for children

A greedy father has thieves for children

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and...

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and...

For greed, all nature is too little.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed

Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I...

Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I...