Buddhism Quote by Victor Hugo

“(The presence of evil) in his life provokes him into either overcoming it or yielding to it. If the first, it has led him…

— Paul Brunton

“...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

“For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.”

— Ecclesiastes 1 18

“He said that the notion that evil is seldom rewarded was greatly overspoken for if there were no advantage to it then men would…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Slowly, slowly, his soul was filled with bitterness at the fact that he had stood a step away from enlightenment, from the most real…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky

“What he taught was very simple. He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us…

— Hannah Arendt

“His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

— Lawrence Durrell

“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”

— Jon Krakauer

“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

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy