Knowledge Quotes

"'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'"

"A salesman is got to dream, boy."

"A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth"

"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even YOU turned from me in disgust?"

"Allegory of the Cave"

"Be a philosopher, but amidst all your philosophy be still a man."

"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way."

"Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble."

"Billie Jean is not my lover."

"Boy, don't try to front. I know just what you are."

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

"Can ye not discern the signs of the times?"

"Dust to dust"

"Faith is namely this paradox that the single individual is higher than the universal."

"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn."

"For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool."

"From the mouths of babes"

"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."

"I am the walrus. Goo goo g'joob."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you."

"I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am."

"I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies."

"I feel good, I knew that I would, now."

"I have not the pleasure of understanding you."

"I know kung fu."

"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."

"I only know that I know nothing."

"I think, therefore I am."

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."

"In the beginning"

"In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous."

"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"

"It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it."

"It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how."

"It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being"

"It is written."

"It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."

"It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you […] persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses."

"It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring."

"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"Know thyself."

"Labor of love"

"Life can only be understood backwards."

"Life is pain. Anybody that says different is selling something."

"Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live."

"Look, George. Look what I done."

"Love is patient; love is kind."

"Maman died today."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing."

"Money is the root of all evil."

"Money often costs too much."

"Much madness is divinest sense—"

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast."

"My candle burns at both ends"

"No mere mortal can resist the evil of the thriller."

"No one does wrong voluntarily."

"Of Man's first disobedience"

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought"

"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."

"See eye to eye."

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away"

"So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!"

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."

"The fathers have eaten sour grapes"

"The Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart."

"The modern masters promise very little"

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."

"They call it a Royale with Cheese."

"Things don't happen, they are made to happen."

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."

"This fella's a regular Belasco."

"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."

"Thoughts without content are empty."

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall."

"War is Hell!"

"We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep."

"We're all mad here."

"What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?"

"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."

"When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake."

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."

"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, "No, I went to films.""

"When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."

"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show."

"Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?"

"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"

"Writing on the wall"

"You can't pray a lie—I found that out."

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

"You take the blue pill […] You take the red pill."