Subject Quotes

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. (Samuel Johnson)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. View quote
Winston Churchill
Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. View quote
James Meade
Any idealism is a proper subject for art. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. View quote
William Hazlitt
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. View quote
Huey P. Newton
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. View quote
Frank Sinatra
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. (Peter Drucker)
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. View quote
William Hazlitt
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey. View quote
John Dryden
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. View quote
Will Durant
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking. View quote
Vasily Klyuchevsky
We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best. (Anatole France)
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic. View quote
Pierre Corneille
Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound. View quote
Eduard Hanslick
Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level. View quote
Enrico Fermi