Burden Quote by Alice Hoffman

Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.

— Carol Rifka Brunt

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

— Lionel Blue

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

— Anonymous

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

— Anita Brookner

Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this…

— Meister Eckhart

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you…

— George Harrison

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it…

— Frederick Lenz

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

— Jonathan Raymond

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

— George Harrison

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

— Sarah Dessen

“Knowing” can be useful, but learning not to know creates a powerful openness that is inconceivable until it is experienced.”

— Peter Ralston