Berkeley

Famous quotes containing the word berkeley:

    All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.
    —George Berkeley (1685–1753)

    Annie: Dances like Pavaliver, that child.
    George Grainger: Dances like who?
    Annie: Pavaliver—the Russian dancer. Don’t be so ignorant.
    —Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)