Quotations and Poems

» “”How do you know so much about everything?” was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ”By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.”
– John Abbott

» “I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
– Franklin P. Adams

» “Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.”
– Joseph Addison

» “Man knows more than he understands.”
– Alfred Adler

» “Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.”
– Thomas Arnold

» “Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.”
– Sudie Back

» “Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Knowledge is power.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.”
– Ivern Ball

» “I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.”
– Lucille Ball

» “Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.”
– Orlando A. Battista

» “I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”
– Robert Benchley

» “It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.”
– R. K. Bergethon

» “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.”
– Claude Bernard

» “Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.”
– Bhagavad Gita

» “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]“
– Bible

» “And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]“
– Bible

» “Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.”
– Josh Billings

» “Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
– Josh Billings

» “The trouble with most folks ain’t so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain’t so.”
– Josh Billings

» “The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody’s word about them.”
– Henry Bolingbroke

» “Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.”
– Grant M. Bright

» “To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn’t.”
– Francis Yeats Brown

» “To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.”
– Mark Caine

» “Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
– Sandara Carey

» “I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.”
– Lewis Carroll

» “There’s a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ”Where was I before I was born.” In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.”
– Angela Carter

» “A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”
– Carlos Castaneda

» “It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.”
– William Ellery Channing

» “Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”
– Auguste Comte

» “Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”
– Confucius

» “The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”
– Confucius

» “To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
– Confucius

» “When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it–this is knowledge.”
– Confucius

» “You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.”
– Calvin Coolidge

» “Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
– William Cowper

» “Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
– William Cowper

» “To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.”
– Quentin Crisp

» “You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don’t think there’s anything man wasn’t meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn’t do.”
– David Cronenberg

» “Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”
– Ralph J. Cudworth

» “Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
– E.E. Edward.

» “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.”
– Edgar Degas

» “Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.”
– Sir John Denham

» “There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.”
– Denis Diderot

» “Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

» “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
– William J. Durant

» “The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”
– Meister Eckhart

» “We don’t know one-millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
– Albert Einstein

» “During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”
– George Eliot

» “I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Knowledge is the only elegance.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”
– Epictetus

» “Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
– Epictetus

» “The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.”
– Douglas Everett

» “Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.”
– Austin Farrar

» “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
– Martin H. Fischer

» “For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”
– James Elroy Flecker

» “God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans’t.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.”
– Frederick II

» “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
– J. Paul Getty

» “No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.”
– Andre Gide

» “He knows so little and knows it so fluently.”
– Ellen Glasgow

» “Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “What is not fully understood is not possessed.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.”
– George Gurdjieff

» “All knowledge is ambiguous.”
– J. S. Habgood

» “Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
– Bishop Hall

» “The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
– Caryl Haskins

» “Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.”
– Johann Gottfried Von Herder

» “There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge — that is everywhere.”
– Hermann Hesse

» “Knowledge is only potential power.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals… which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.”
– Thomas Hobbes

» “Knowledge like timber shouldn’t be mush use till they are seasoned.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”
– John Holt

» “You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”
– William Morris Hunt

» “Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
– William James

» “Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

» “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “More knowledge may be gained of a man’s real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
– Carl Jung

» “”Knowledge is power.” Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge — broad, deep knowledge — is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man’s progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
– Helen Keller

» “The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “It’s a dangerous thing to think we know everything.”
– Jack Kuehler

» “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.”
– Lao-Tzu

» “Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
– Christopher Lasch

» “Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”
– John Locke

» “Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”
– Konrad Lorenz

» “He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value.”
РJean Fran̤ois Lyotard

» “Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.”
– Thomas B. Macaulay

» “The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given — all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”
– Frederic William Maitland

» “It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one’s country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”
– Manutius

» “An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.”
– James A. Michener

» “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.”
– John Stuart Mill

» “Sin, guilt, neurosis –they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
– Henry Miller

» “The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.”
– Keith Miller

» “A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.”
– Darius Ogden Mills

» “The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.”
– John Milton

» “Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!”
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» “Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.”
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» “The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.”
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

» “I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.”
– Hannah More

» “Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.”
– John Morely

» “There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.”
– Jim Morrison

» “When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.”
– Clark Moustakas

» “Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.”
– Robert K. Mueller

» “Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person”
– Ethel Watts Mumford

» “Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”
– Hector Hugh Munro

» “The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.”
– Gerard De Nerval

» “Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “We have no organ at all for knowledge, for ”truth”: we ”know” (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called ”usefulness” is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “And all your future lies beneath your hat.”
– John Oldham

» “What’s scary in life is not what people know (or don’t know), but what they know that ain’t so.”
– Leroy ”Satchel” Paige

» “Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.”
– William Penn

» “Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.”
– Francis Picabia

» “Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.”
– Pickering

» “Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
– Plato

» “Who knows most believes least.”
– Proverb

» “When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “He who knows little quickly tells it.”
– Italian Proverb

» “He who does not know one thing knows another”
– Kenyan Proverb

» “Every animal knows more than you do.”
– Native American Proverb

» “It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.”
– Persian Proverb

» “Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.”
– Spanish Proverb

» “Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.”
– Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

» “Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”
– Arthur Rimbaud

» “It not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.”
– Cavett Robert

» “We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.”
– Rutherford D. Roger

» “Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”
– John Ruskin

» “The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.”
– Jan Van Ruysbroeck

» “Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
– George Santayana

» “Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.”
– Saying

» “As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

» “Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.”
– William Shakespeare

» “One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don’t know what the hell’s going on.”
– Jake Simmons

» “Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession — a property entirely our own.”
– Samuel Smiles

» “One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.”
– Socrates

» “We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.”
– Socrates

» “The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.”
– Sophocles

» “No matter what happens, there’s always somebody who knew it would.”
– Lonny Starr

» “The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
– Laurence Sterne

» “The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don’t know you don’t know.”
– Ray Stevens

» “I wish I knew what I know now before.”
– Rod Stewart

» “It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
– Tom Stoppard

» “Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.”
– Swinnock

» “Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.”
– Thomas Szasz

» “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “They are so knowing, that they know nothing.”
– Terence

» “To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
– Alvin Toffler

» “A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
– Mark Twain

» “Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.”
– Mark Twain

» “The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.”
– Mark Twain

» “We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
– Mark Twain

» “A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: ”By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.””
– Source Unknown

» “Know-how will surpass guess-how.”
– Source Unknown

» “Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.”
– Source Unknown

» “Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”
– Source Unknown

» “Many of us don’t have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.”
– Source Unknown

» “No man knows less than the man who knows it all”
– Source Unknown

» “Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.”
– Source Unknown

» “Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.”
– Source Unknown

» “Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.”
– Source Unknown

» “Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt.”
– William Van Horne

» “Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.”
– Raoul Vaneigem

» “The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
– John Archibald Wheeler

» “Knowledge, like religion, must be ”experienced” in order to be known.”
– Edwin P. Whipple

» “In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.”
– W. R. Whitney

» “When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn’t much room at the edge — one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t”
– Elie Wiesel

» “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating –people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “I am not young enough to know everything.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
– Brigham Young

» “If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
– Mao Zedong