knowledge

"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."

"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."

"A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing."

"Poetry as Entertainment [10w] Poetry that's not entertaining is just a self-indulgent laundry list."

"Grave Dancing for Dummies {Couplet} They danced at my grave when I was buried at sea;with my haters drowned, I'm now totally free."

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

"The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge."

"A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."

"The knowledge of all things is possible"

"Politics:Lies about the truth,or the truth about lies?"

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."

"What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)"

"To be the only one who knows is lonely. No wonder Solomon, the wisest man, needed 900 concubines."

"What can I say? I prefer to die well informed."

"Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself."

"Life-long learning is the modus of keeping your brain…your thoughts…your ideas…engaged in a quest for knowledge that enriches and expands the mind with a constant thirst for wisdom."

"Poetry Calling [10w] Poetry's not a calling.It's a whispering in your ear."

"Upgrading [10w] Promise them the worldto get the universe in return."

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own."