At its best, fiction is not a diversion but a means of…

Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best…

— Azar Nafisi

We're so much more likely to feel sympathy for an animal than another person; thus, the best fiction uses animals to define truly humane…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In knowing the world we humanize it, and if, as we discover it, we are astonished at its dimensions and its complexity, we should…

— Alan W. Watts

“Knowing the world means having first-hand knowledge about it, which in turn means understanding ‘why the world is what it is’ and ‘why people…

— Awdhesh Singh

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

— Richard Louv

The terror of knowing what this world is about.

— Queen (band

“How often did this happen to people, this not knowing where in the world you were?”

— Laini Taylor

“The Self is the only thing that is worth knowing. Nothing else in this world is worth knowing. The other things which you have…

— Dada Bhagwan

“It seems to me that being the right size for your world-- and knowing that both you and your world are not by any…

— Jeanette Winterson

That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at…

— Emile Durkheim

There's a terror in knowing what the world is about

— David Bowie

There's comfort in knowing that there's someone else in the world who gets you.

— Myha'la

“Without knowing the world of others, your own world will never get rich!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and…

— Guy Gavriel Kay