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
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
—Henri Frederic Amiel
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
—Thomas A. Edison
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
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
—Samuel Johnson
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
—Theodore Roosevelt
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
—W.S. Merwin
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
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
—Anatole France
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
—Kahlil Gibran
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
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
—James Thurber
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
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