“What you look for in the world is not simply for what you want to know, but for more than you want to know, and more than you can know, better than you had wished for, and sometimes something draws you to a discovery and there is no other happiness quite the same.”

Eudora Welty

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“And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”

T. S. Eliot

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“He wishes he could unknow all of it, just tilt his head and shake it out of his ear, like bathwater.”

Eleanor Henderson

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“My first stepfather used to say that what I didn’t know would fill a book. Well, here it is.”

Tobias Wolff

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“I’m very interested in someone’s path to knowledge being a kind of madness. I’m interested in the route that people must take to arrive at a spot where they can be large and whole and responsive.”

Scott Spencer

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“For knowledge, whatever it is worth, from the most precise mathematics to the darkest suggestions of art, is not to calm the soul but to create a state of vibration and tension in it.”

Witold Gombrowicz

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“The way to know the shape of things in advance is to listen to seers and mystics instead of to economists and tacticians. The world had ample warning of every event which it has greeted with such gasps of surprise in the past twelve months. Part of the preparation for the perfect world society will be the recognition of seers. It will be required for the President of the United States that he read one poem and one parable or fable a day, in addition to the editorials in the Times.”

E. B. White

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“You’re smart, but you’re missing basic knowledge that will eventually stop you dead in your tracks.”

Ann Beattie

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“He knew what’s what, and that’s as high
As metaphysic wit can fly…”

Samuel Butler

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“Schopenhauer: the task of philosophy is to turn tears into knowledge. And for me, a sigh into a tweet.”

Alain de Botton

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