Civilization Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

“... that once you throw your life to the winds, you will discover things you had never known before, things that cannot be learned…

— Paul Auster

“a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too,…

— e.e. cummings

“Knowing it, you know the very heartbeat of existence. Knowing it, you have known all that is worth knowing, and you have achieved all…

— Osho

“Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.”

— Dean Koontz

“It happens this way sometimes, we can discover truths about ourselves in a moment, sometimes in the midst of drama, sometimes quietly. A sunset…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For I knew already that something had taken me from me, and had replaced it with a desperate longing for a time before; a…

— Sarah Winman

“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements might have…

— Erik Pevernagie

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

— Liliʻuokalani

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to…

— Tom Felton

“Yes, is not life in sunshine and in beauty a hundred times better worth while than to hang about to the end of your…

— Henrik Ibsen

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

— Andrew Sullivan