Monica Drake, Clown Girl
The only value of wasted time is knowledge....
Tag: knowledge
Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic: a star in the...
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know....
Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will...
Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo’s Notebooks
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge....
Aristotle, On Man in the Universe
All men by nature desire knowledge....
Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend....
Howard Nemerov
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time....
Lance Armstrong, It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of...
Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. IV
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself...
