knowledge

"All we know is what we're told."

"One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."

"Amazon.com Amazon.com is the Church of Consumer Capitalismwhose ethics demands we know the price of everything,the value of absolutely nothing of true moral valueand most importantly ~Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought."

"Self-Help I asked the bookseller,'Do you have any self-help books for addiction?'He said,'If I tell you, I'd be enabling you."

"Not all those who wander are lost."

"I put the “now” in knowledge. Well, I will put it there, probably tomorrow or tomorrow’s tomorrow."

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"

"Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge."

"Many much-learned men have no intelligence."

"When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive, the knowledge of navigation, creative imagination. Without them, you are lost."

"I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace."

"Anna's eyes soften, and the stubborn tears begin to recede. The way she stands, the way she breathes, I know she wants to come closer. New knowledge fills up the air between us and neither of us wants to breathe it in."

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."

"One person's craziness is another person's reality."

"Death [10w] What the the dying most resent is life goes on."

"Learning from Experience Learning from experience means, 'Boy, did I just fuck up!"

"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)"

"Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic."

"I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare."

"a problem well put is half solved."