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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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? – Igor Stravinsky

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It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – Igor Stravinsky

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. – Igor Stravinsky

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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. – Abraham Cowley

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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. – Plato

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My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros. – Gina Carano

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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. – John McCarthy

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All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle

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