#know

I disagree with the advice of 'write about what you know.' Write about what you need to know, in an effort to understand. ↗

— Donald Windham

#understand #writing #writing-advice #writing-advice

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. ↗

— Mary Lyon

#fail #fear #i #know #nothing

What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#love #love

It’s the unknown that draws people. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#adventures #attraction #discovery #fascination #love-of-the-unknown

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#civilized #general #having #know #men

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#life #love #wants #life

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#learning #love #spirit #surprise #truth

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#creativity #humor #self-knowledge #humor

The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#doctrine #unknowing #love

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#am #anything #busy #cuts #doing