Bad news Quote by John Barth Download Open image “Self knowledge is always bad news.” — John Barth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad news News Self Self knowledge
Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. — Karl Shapiro Copy Share Image
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good. — Plato Copy Share Image
Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always. — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices, no one… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — John Barth Copy Share Image
Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way? — John Barth Copy Share Image
A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years… — John Barth Copy Share Image
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Am I boring you? I don't really care, I suppose, but I'll be more comfortable if I knew all this interested you. No doubt… — John Barth Copy Share Image
In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people. — Brian J. Smith Copy Share Image
“I remember a man, a very lonely man, coming up to me at the end of a reading and looking into my face and… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
If there's one thing you should know about me it's that I'm utterly unsuited for bureaucracy. I don't know my passwords to anything. I… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I seem to thrive by destroying the last thing I did, in a kind of cartoon Nietzsche way. Emerson says in "Experience" something like… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
“The bad news is that, measured in terms of geologic time, if the Earth’s history is an accurate guide, glaciers will soon return to… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
For a long period of time, the media covered rap music and hip hop the same way they cover a lot of black people,… — Chuck D Copy Share Image
