“that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com
“I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.”— Salvador Dalí, amazon.com
“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”— B.F. Skinner, amazon.com
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”— Thomas Szasz, whatsupatupstate.wordpress.com
“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, twitter.com
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”— Rene Descartes, amazon.com
“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.”— Rosalyn S Yalow, amazon.com
“As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“There are many degrees of madness. Philosophy, Psychology, and Literature are to name but a few.”— Yahia Lababidi, amazon.com
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”— Jean Piaget, jeanpiaget.org
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world...”— Nelson Mandela, db.nelsonmandela.org