Eternity Quote by Will Self

“...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 took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this…

— John Williams

“A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be…

— Daniel Keyes

“The fruit in the garden was not about knowledge, but about not knowing, about looking into a face and having no idea whether you…

— Naeem Murr

“It's only when you have grazed on the lower slopes of your own ignorance and begun to understand the great vistas of nonknowledge that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the…

— René Descartes

“Only those could maintain certainty who were themselves of great permanence – like the stars, the mountains and the sea. And they in turn…

— Sten Nadolny

“Ah, heavens and earth, friend, if you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with…

— Mark Twain

“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“He knew that the fuel his brain craved could only be found in a proper university.”

— Douglas Coupland

“the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.”

— Shane Kuhn

“The more he studied, the more vistas he caught of fields of knowledge yet unexplored, and the regret that days were only twenty-four hours…

— Jack London