Quote by Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Stravinsky

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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. – Igor Stravinsky

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T. S. Eliot

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Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. – Plato

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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