knowledge Quotes

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.