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I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), “An Absurd Reasoning”
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.
- Knowledge
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
- Knowledge
- Love
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
- Knowledge
- Love
The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881The Hero as Man of Letters
- Reading
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
- Experience
- Knowledge
“Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,” the Mock Turtle replied; “and then the different branches of Arithmetic⁠—Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.”
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter IXIn context
- Comedy
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
- Entertainment
This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962), Chapter 2, Page 13
- Knowledge
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)
- Experience
- Knowledge
Power rests on the kind of knowledge that one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless? They will not prepare us for our unavoidable encounter with the unknown.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)
- Knowledge
- Power
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather1873–1947The Song of the Lark (1915), Part VI, Ch. 7
- Experience
Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977The Great Dictator (1940), the barber’s closing speech
- Knowledge
- Thinking
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
CCharlemagne747–814De Litteris Colendis (c. 780–800); translation from T. H. Huxley, Science and Education (1893)
- Knowledge
- Morality
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), The General PrologueIn context
- Knowledge