More quotations tagged with “knowledge”
There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.
—Leah Raeder in Unteachable
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
—Samuel Johnson
It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you’ll always remember, aren’t the ones you can force, or go looking for. I’ve always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
—Daniel Webster
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best—and therefore never scrutinize or question.
—Stephen Jay Gould