Inscriptions Quote by Virginia Woolf

“For it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to…

— Virginia Woolf

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

— Roberto Bolano

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ...

— Cassandra Clare

“Sitting on the floor with her arm round Mrs. Ramsay's knees, close as she could get, smiling to think that Mrs. Ramsay would never…

— Virginia Woolf

She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no…

— Pearl S. Buck

“I once knew of a girl whose story forms the substance of the diary. Whether he has seduced others I do not know... we…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“It also demonstrated that far from being an impediment, knowledge is an asset to feminine charm.”

— Robert F. Young

“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross

“Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled…

— Seneca the Younger

“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

“Contrary to Expectation. A wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all…

— Idries Shah