"The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him."

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Source : Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Robert Penn Warren

#Knowledge Quotes #Men Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly.”
“People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.”
“The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.”
“People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.”
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
“the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.”

Source : Anna Leonowens (2009). “The Romance of the Harem”, p.114, Applewood Books
“If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.”
“It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.”

Source : "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, November 10, 2004.

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