"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."

Knowledge, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Knowledge, Reading, Books, Mind, Solitude

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Knowledge, Justice, Independence, Tradition

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Knowledge, Experience, Reality, Truth, Wisdom

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Knowledge, Teaching, Understanding, Life, Unity

"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Knowledge, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Ignorance, Fall, Innocence

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Knowledge, Forget

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Answers, Truth, Desire

"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Knowledge, History, Power, Observation, Fear

"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Knowledge, Books, Experience, Life, Influence

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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

Motivation

"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."

History

"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

Politics

"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

Politics

"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."

History

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

Military

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"That which cures all worldly miseries, is called 'Scientific' Knowledge."

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Tuchman

"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."

"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."

"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."

"Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?"

"Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham."

"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."

"England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last."

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."