Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: knowledge safety identity change world Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. —Henri Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: life knowledge suffering desire art of living Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is a fifth dimension beyond those known to man. It is a dimension vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between the pit of his fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area called the Twilight Zone. —Rod Serling More about this quote Tags: imagination knowledge infinity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. —Thomas A. Edison More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. —Thomas Carlyle More about this quote Tags: learning becoming knowledge books university Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. —Samuel Johnson More about this quote Tags: knowledge research information Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: knowledge care Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are asleep with compasses in our hands. —W.S. Merwin More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge direction sleep Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. —Anaïs Nin More about this quote Tags: truth discovery knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. —Anatole France More about this quote Tags: imagination knowledge nothing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge art obviousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us? —Michel de Montaigne More about this quote Tags: learning knowledge curiosity trust fire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: questions knowledge curiosity certainty doubt answers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When confronted by a human being who impresses us as truly great, should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his failures? —Lou Andreas-Salome More about this quote Tags: knowledge failure greatness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People always think they know other people, but they don't. Not really. I mean, maybe they know things about them, like they won't eat doughnuts or they like action movies or whatever. But they don't know what their friends do in their rooms alone at night or what happened to them when they were kids or if they feel sad for no reason at all. —Libba Bray in Going Bovine More about this quote Tags: others friends knowledge sadness feelings Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email