knowledge

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

"As much as I would love to know what you know, I’d much rather eat your brain with a spoon."

"The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him."

"I found a beautiful lane called "I know nothing". it leads it way ; all you got to do is walk in it."

"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 way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge."

"An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything"

"Good Egg [10w] Picking up the pieces is the responsibilty of the egg."

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

"Garden [10w] A garden is a poem written with flowers on earth."

"Say No to Drugs Commercials The image of an egg sizzling in a frying pan is not your brain on drugs.It's just a fucking omelet."

"Love [10w] Love is a time machineset to your perfect present"

"Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality."

"Curse of the Ageing Woman {Couplet} I'm a wallflower, bluestocking, left on the Shelf, When you're beyond one's sell-by date, you've left by yourself,"

"Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"

"Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco treat... ...the other treat, of course, being anal penetration."

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation."

"The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies."

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

"All I know is I don’t know if I know, and this everlasting oscillation shakes my belief system."