knowledge Quotes

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.