A Quote by Helen Clark MacInnes

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Helen Clark MacInnes

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Barbarian Destroy Educated Knows Worst

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Helen Clark MacInnes
American - Author
October 7, 1907 - September 20, 1985

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.

Arthur C. Clarke

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

Ryan Bader

They knew no better, but I do not propose to follow the example of a barbarian because he was honestly a barbarian.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I’ve been a barbarian my whole life. I’m just a smarter barbarian now. Evolution, you know?

Brock Lesnar

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

Thomas Sowell

Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission.

Piers Anthony

We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.

Arthur Laffer

It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

Richard M. Weaver

There are, for example, so many kinds of tongues in this world; and none is without voice. If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian; and he that speaketh, a barbarian to me.

Paul the Apostle

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

An educated person, I think, is one who not only knows a lot, but knows how to do a lot of things.

Henry Ford

A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.

Jack Vance

The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.