Knowledge Quote by Virginia Woolf

“Could loving, as people called it, make her and Mrs. Ramsay one? for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“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

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

— Maylis de Kerangal

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

— Robert F. Young

“In Ramsay, she’d found a man who understood her, who respected her as much as she respected him. A man who stirred the fire…

— Vivienne Savage

“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

“It was the chief thing he knew about women: that they could always be calmed down by the fact, or even by the prospect,…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“She can’t explain it. Lines of force, lines of sight, mathematical configurations; all of the knowledge that she needs is in her mind, but…

— N.K. Jemisin

“The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of…

— Connie Brockway

“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

“I understood it now, understood a lot of things I had never understood before. And mostly I understood what a woman could mean to…

— James M. Cain