#knowledge

I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#wisdom #self-knowledge

I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses. ↗

— Janet Frame

#self-knowledge #self-knowledge

To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#honesty #illusions #perception #personality #self-awareness

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#historiography #history #knowledge #nature

O tolo vomita, o sábio engole. ↗

— Provérbio Indiano

#wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#fathers #generations #knowledge #relationships #sons

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life #life

I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#laugh

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#knowledge #life #death

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #death