I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like I'm surrounded by people with hard edges and sour faces but I get the sense that you're different. Too often people seem to think that they have the answers to everything. Their faces are trapped in permascowls and they can't be bothered with anything besides their own narcissism. You aren't like that. You still ask questions. You're still looking for the answers.
—Ryan O'Connell in I Want To Know You
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
—Thomas Aquinas
People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.
—Laurie Faria Stolarz in Deadly Little Games
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
—James Baldwin
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
—Niels Bohr
All general statements are false.
—Unknown
You never knew what you could get away with until you tried.
—Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
The years teach much which the days never know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
—Stephen Jay Gould
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to know me. Not the stuff they thought they knew about me. No, the real me. I wanted them to get past the rumors. To see beyond the relationships I once had.
—Jay Asher in Thirteen Reasons Why
History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
—Leonard Louis Levinson
If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
—Yogi Berra
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
—Thomas H. Huxley