Absence Quote by Elie Wiesel

Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“men's great knowledge comes from suffering.”

— Davey

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after…

— John Calvin

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and…

— Pliny the Elder

“How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering?”

— Henry James

It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more…

— Joyce Cary

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“Man detaches himself from his surroundings; he feels alone; abandoned, ignorant of everything except that he knows nothing... His first feeling thus was existential…

— Anonymous

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from…

— John Calvin

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and…

— Helen Keller

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure…

— Joyce Cary

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained,…

— Confucius