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 More about this quote Tags: reality knowledge world appearance deception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: mind learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many who have spent a lifetime in love can tell you less of love than the child whose dog died yesterday. —Thornton Wilder More about this quote Tags: love knowledge explanation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: imagination knowledge science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. —Ursula K. Le Guin More about this quote Tags: life future knowledge uncertainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. —George Burns More about this quote Tags: politics knowledge certainty leadership Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be known. —Trisha Leigh in Summer Ruins More about this quote Tags: truth knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. —Sydney Smith More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge discretion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. —R. Buckminster Fuller More about this quote Tags: knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. —Ethel Mumford More about this quote Tags: power humor knowledge gossip blackmail Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it. —Elizabeth Bowen More about this quote Tags: knowledge ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge problems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. —William S. Burroughs More about this quote Tags: wonder questions learning knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I remember a medicine man in Africa who said to me almost with tears in his eyes: "We have no dreams anymore since the British are in the country." When I asked him why, he answered, "The District Commissioner knows everything." —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: wonder power knowledge dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: technology knowledge science ignorace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email