#knowledge

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#learning #life #self #self-knowledge #age

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a knew source." (...) "But you love books, then", Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen. "Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they're the only thing that keeps me alive." "What a thing to say at your age", she laughed. "No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#knowledge #reading #age

One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humour #knowledge-wisdom #memory #age

At thirty a man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves; and re-resolves; then dies the same. ↗

— Edward Young

#maturity #self-knowledge #age

The thing about traveling alone, is that you run into your insecurities and fears times ten the normal! You run into all the good things and all the bad things about yourself on a daily basis, and are allowed the opportunity to truly become your own friend. Traveling alone is a learning process; some people travel for leisure, I travel to run into myself! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #know-thyself #learning #overcoming-fears #self-discovery

Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know. ↗

— Sharon Lee

#knowledge #age

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#conservatism #conservative #i #kind #person

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence. ↗

— Robert Millikan

#conducive #depths #fullness #humility #ignorance

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#either #going #i #i think #important

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#biological #fact #natural #reality #socially