Knowledge Quote by Robert F. Young

“… and she understood that all forms of knowledge contain an element of transgression.”

— Maylis de Kerangal

“Women always know everything; they like to hoard the information until it can be used to maximum effect.”

— Megan Derr

“did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne…

— Matthew Lewis

“She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.”

— Brooke Hauser

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

“She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.”

— Margaret Way

“Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.”

— Alexander Strauch

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

— Albert Einstein

“But maybe in life, she thought later, there are not only moments of strangeness but moments of knowledge, which don’t appear at the time…

— Meg Wolitzer

“But if this desire that a woman should appear added for me something more exalting than the charms of nature, they in their turn…

— Marcel Proust

“Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.”

— Sidy Sidique

“The beautiful know they have power, and she had, in her diminutive charm, a certain power of which she was always casually aware.”

— Anne Rice