"many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; and some things I would give - O what would one not give to know? are beyond the reach of human ken."

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Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.148

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#Knowledge Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.”
“You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.”
“No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp,”

Source : "I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much". TED conference, www.ted.com. April 2014.
“I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.”
“It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”

Source : Anne Brontë, “The Narrow Way”
“Manners are like primary colors, there are certain rules and once you have these you merely mix, i.e., adapt, them to meet changing situations.”
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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