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“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from…

— Lois Lowry

“He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.”

— Idries Shah

“A man remains knowing as long as he searches for knowledge and continues to study. When he thinks he knows, he has become ignorant.”

— Franz Rosenthal

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He relished never knowing what lay in his path, who might approach with what intention.”

— Toni Morrison

“There is only one key to knowledge, and that is desire.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“He who acquires knowledge and acts up to it and teaches it to the people is noble to the angels of heaven and earth.…

— Imam Al-Ghazali

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and willing activity…

— Otto Weininger

“He was teaching that people who trust only in themselves can never find peace or contentment. People’s possessions can imprison them in a world…

— Jim M. Perdue

“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

— Milan Kundera

“Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami