knowledge

"The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past."

"I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions."

"Thorn [5w] Every thorn has its rose."

"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy"

"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."

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

"Busch Beer: Head for the mountains... [10w] ...and fall off the precipice shitfaced."

"Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know."

"In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t know of another occupation like that. The more you know, the better you’re going to be."

"While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment."

"The universe never complains.When you're wrong or right,She always loves and cares,She always gives and shares. When you get lost she becomes the light,Helps you to find what is right. But she never forgetsTo show you the light."

"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."

"Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?"

"It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head."

"Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing."

"The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte."

"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."

"Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient."

"The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)"