Knowledge Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so…

— Francis Bacon

“[A writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no…

— William Faulkner

“You see, in all his travels through the fallen ruins of civilizations, he picked up this notion that mankind is insignificant. That nothing we…

— Matthew J. Kirby

“Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And…

— Adalbert Stifter

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.”

— Bauvard

“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition…

— Michel Houellebecq

“... 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 short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be…

— Daniel Keyes

“to say all in a word, everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the light of…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau