Knowledge
Quotes - Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge
“There
is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”
―
W.E.B. DuBois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
“Emotion,
which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and
precise picture of it.”
―
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“So
runs my dream, but what am I?
An
infant crying in the night
An
infant crying for the light
And
with no language but a cry.”
―
Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
“Knowledge
is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
―
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
“Never
judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the
motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest
woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but
there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps
this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too,
that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for
something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are
envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men.
Always trust your heart. If the Creator stood before a million men with the
light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is
already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in
them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to her.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Fear
grew in places unlit by knowledge”
―
Roshani Chokshi, The Gilded Wolves
“Valuing
knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into
dark and empty places.”
―
Veronica Roth, Divergent
“You
know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused
for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true,
some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At
birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information,
no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard
drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the
files.”
―
Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“Interviewer:
Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan:
he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.”
―
Ann Druyan
“It
is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be
thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
―
Voltaire
“Habit
is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire
(want to do).”
―
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in
Personal Change
“What
an author doesn't know could fill a book.”
―
Holly Black, Lucinda's Secret
“He
had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing
intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to
face it. He found himself wondering if his life were worth the living; if it
had ever been. It was a question, he suspected, that came to all men at one
time or another; he wondered if it came to them with such impersonal force as
it came to him. The question brought with it a sadness, but it was a general
sadness which (he thought) had little to do with himself or with his particular
fate; he was not even sure that the question sprang from the most immediate and
obvious causes, from what his own life had become. It came, he believed, from
the accretion of his years, from the density of accident and circumstance, and
from what he had come to understand of them. He took a grim and ironic pleasure
from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had
led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning
that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a
nothingness they did not alter.”
―
John Williams, Stoner
“She
said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we
don't to make it all bearable.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives
“All
sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the
mother of all Knowledge.”
―
Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo's Notebooks
“Until
every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma
for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is
mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This
earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet
grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of
opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us
hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon
predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other
seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where
Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of
their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist
has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and
entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this
atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?
Christians
tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is—not that they love
their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those
who differ from them, with simple fairness.
We
do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not
have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think,
then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful
churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person
as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority,
the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God
seems to be the sum of all the creeds.”
―
Robert G. Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
