We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowledge
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. Oscar Wilde Ambition
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. George Eliot Life
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. Claire Danes
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. Lord Byron Knowledge Life
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau Knowledge Friendship
We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things. Hesiod
When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift Genius
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Isaac Asimov
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. Giacomo Casanova
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. John Steinbeck
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. Kahlil Gibran Self-discovery Knowledge