Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse. – Zhuangzi Category: Knowledge
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter Category: Knowledge
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Nicolaus Copernicus Category: Knowledge
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. – Klaus Fuchs Category: Knowledge
If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle Category: Carpe Diem
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism. – Thomas E. Mann Category: Patriotism
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott Category: Ritual, Ceremony
