Walt Whitman Quotes
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman
Quotes to Explore
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
Karl Jaspers
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Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.
Edward Bond
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Ancient science had sought knowledge of what things are, to be contemplated as an end in itself satisfying to the knower. In contrast, modern science seeks knowledge of how things work, to be used as a means for the relief and comfort of all humanity, knowers and non-knowers alike.
Leon Kass
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To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
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On visiting India this time, because of my previous visit, I did have a certain amount of knowledge about the country, but I also felt that there was much greater interest in Japan and deeper interaction between the two countries now than the last time I was there.
Akihito
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There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.
Edward Teller
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Conscious auto-suggestion, made with confidence, faith, and perseverance realizes itself automatically, in all matters within reason.
Emile Coue
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is too interesting and too boring at the same time.
Douglas Coupland
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His ear heard more than is said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.
John Steinbeck
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She slipped silently out of the kitchen, climbed the wide, curving stairway, and went into her room. Then she turned the lock and sat down in a low rocking-chair by the window. She was resentfully, flamingly angry, as good, high-minded people sometimes become angry. She was deeply, quiveringly hurt, as sensible, sunshiny people, who do not go about looking for slights, are sometimes hurt.
Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman
