"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." - Frederick BuechnerTweet
"I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me." - John Shelton ReedTweet
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature." - Emma BoninoTweet
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child." - George Bernard ShawTweet
"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts." - William GlasserTweet
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." - Elbert HubbardTweet
"The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole." - James MeadeTweet
"Knowledge is love and light and vision." - Helen KellerTweet
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge." - Jean PiagetTweet
"It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker." - Chris CleaveTweet