Wisdom & Knowledge Quotes (5423 Quotes)
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- Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.
(W. Paul Young, "The Shack")
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- Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
(Wallace Stegner, "Angle of Repose")
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- The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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- His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
(William Golding, "Lord of the Flies")
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- The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
(William Golding, "Lord of the Flies")
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- The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
(William Shakespeare, "As You Like It")
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- I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish.
(William Shakespeare, "King Lear")
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- All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
(Toni Morrison, "Beloved")
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- Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had reached that sweet depth where two people communicate more often in silence than in words: an affectionate quietness replaces the tensions, the unrelaxed chatter and chasing about that produce a friendship's more showy, more, in the surface sense, dramatic moments.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
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- A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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- But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
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- But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
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- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech or not, and in later years he strove long to learn what can be learned, in silence, from the eyes of animals, the flight of birds, the great slow gestures of trees.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
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- He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
(Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea")
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