To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you’re getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

It’s hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

The name Zahra was to have been lman’s own name at birth, but a senior member of the family changed it to lman at the last minute.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

I try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

I don’t think culture is something you can describe.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

I guess if I’m a product, either you’re chocolate, you’re vanilla or you’re butterscotch. You can’t be all three.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.