A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished b

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance. – T. S. Eliot

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. – Abbott L. Lowell

Category:
Knowledge

Do you remember when you found out you wouldnt live forever? People dont talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because youre not born with that knowledge. – David Cronenberg

Category:
Knowledge

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy. – Dusty Baker

Category:
Knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. – Enrico Fermi

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

Our siblings push buttons that cast us in roles we felt sure we had let go of long ago — the baby, the peacekeeper, the caretaker, the avoider…. It doesn’t seem to matter how much time has elapsed or how far we’ve traveled. – Jane Mersky Leder

Category:
Sisters

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Change

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. – Tom Hopkins

Category:
Wisdom

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

Category:
Death