Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word love here not merely in a personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace — not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. —James Baldwin More about this quote Tags: love life fear knowledge happiness growth daring Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: knowledge pleasure Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: relationships knowledge hatred intimacy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. —Walker Evans More about this quote Tags: attention learning purpose knowledge death listening urgency Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. —Alec Bourne More about this quote Tags: education memory knowledge facts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. —James Thurber More about this quote Tags: life knowledge death self-knowledge direction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: religion knowledge science scrutiny nonsense skepticism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are none of us infallible — not even the youngest of us. —W.H. Thompson More about this quote Tags: knowledge error age fallibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: politics ignorance knowledge democracy voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. —Don Marquis More about this quote Tags: honesty power knowledge control Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. —Walter Bagehot More about this quote Tags: writing knowledge books Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. —Will Rogers More about this quote Tags: ignorance knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. —Benjamin Disraeli More about this quote Tags: knowledge facts lies statistics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I liked things better when I didn't understand them. —Bill Watterson More about this quote Tags: understanding ignorance knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Education directs all our attention towards knowledge and attaches no importance to understanding. Exposing children to this kind of influence means that they reach adult life having lost themselves, being entirely dependent upon external things — possessions, the opinions of other people, appearances, and so on. —John G. Bennett More about this quote Tags: understanding education knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email