More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers hi...mself a valid critic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never drank of Aganippe well, Nor ever did in shade of Tempe sit,... And muses scorn with vulgar brains to dwell; Poor layman I, for sacred rites unfit. Some do I hear of poets' fury tell, But, God wot, wot not what they mean by it; And this I swear by blackest brook of hell, I am no pickpurse of another's wit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What ph...ilosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »