Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Television is bubble-gum for the mind.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Television provides superficial entertainment that lacks depth and substance.
Frank Lloyd Wright's quote suggests that television, much like bubble-gum, offers momentary enjoyment but does not contribute significantly to intellectual growth or understanding. It critiques the way people can consume entertainment passively, without engaging their minds in more meaningful or stimulating ways.
Themes
TelevisionEntertainmentMindCreativityIntellect
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about how to cultivate creativity in children, one could reference this quote to emphasize the importance of interactive learning over passive consumption.
More from Frank Lloyd Wright
All quotes βToleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd WrightRead
Similar quotes
When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.
Richard SibbesRead
When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
Anthony De MelloRead
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
AristotleRead
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do
Randy PauschRead
One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
Bertrand RussellRead
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence
George SantayanaRead