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Knowing Quotes (page 701)

It is always difficult to make the transition to a modern world. I moved from the world of faith to the world of reason - from the world of excision and forced marriage to the world of secual emancipation. Having made that journey, I know that one of those worlds is simply better than the other. Not because of its flashy gadgets, but fundamentally, because of its values. The message of this book, if it must have a message, is that we in the West would be wrong to prolong the pain of that... Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Only so much of life do I know as I have lived."
Only so much of life do I know as I have lived. Ralph Waldo Emerson
.... most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth. Rainer Maria Rilke
What do you do?' she asks, holding out the vest.'What do you do?''What do you do?' she asks, her voice shaking. 'Don't ask me, please. Okay, Clay?''Why not?'She sits on the mattress after I get up. Muriel screams.'Because... I don't know,' she sighs.I look at her and don't feel anything and walk out with my vest. Bret Easton Ellis
Neil Gaiman quote: "And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan..."
And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know... Neil Gaiman
It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me. Charlaine Harris
Neil Gaiman quote: "Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just..."
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that. Neil Gaiman
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling. J. K. Rowling
What gives life meaning is a form of rebellion, rebellion against reason, an insistence on believing passionately what we cannot believe rationally. The meaning of life is to be found in passion—romantic passion, religious passion, passion for work and for play, passionate commitments in the face of what reason knows to be meaningless. Robert C. Solomon
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. Robert Bloch
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of... Bill Bryson
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself). J. R. R. Tolkien
I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't. Mitch Albom
Alain de Botton quote: "The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't..."
The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well. Alain de Botton

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