knowledge

"At first sign of crisis, the ignorant don’t panic because they don’t know what’s going on, and then later they panic precisely because they don’t know what’s going on."

"I carry a shower curtain folded up neatly in my wallet, because you never know when you’ll never know."

"Love is my inner strength and my power."

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not."

"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

"...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better."

"Compassion [10w] Compassion is the combination to enter the vault of heaven."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster."

"In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)"

"The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge."

"Soup [10w] Never marry anyone who eats their soup with a ladle."

"Avery If a boy named Avery marries a girl named Avery,will they name or just label their children?"

"War [10w] When leaders threaten war,they’re breaking dirt on our graves."

"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."

"In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie."

"Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil."

"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."

"To be too knowing is a downfall."

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

"We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live."