Quotes About The Burden Of Knowledge

#1. The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance.

Ogwo David Emenike

#2. The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

Ernest Becker

#3. We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Margaret Atwood

#4. There's something really sweet about the way he's playing the part and he's kind of irresistible in a way. They're both really lonely. That's kind of established from the very beginning in the movie. The way they meet is just classic, lonely losers.

Mary-Louise Parker

#5. Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

Mark Gough

#6. Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them.

Donato Carrisi

#7. I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink ...

William S. Burroughs

#8. This burden of Brahmins, no one understands. The sacrifice they make for knowledge, when the whole world sleeps they wake setting standards for the mediocre. But it is their arrogance that is taken note of. They have earned it, haven't they?

Aporva Kala

#9. Knowledge is no burden.

George Herbert

#10. Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

#11. Ah! the learning! And the fun of it? or is it the white man's burden to know more?

Aporva Kala

#12. Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

James Patterson

#13. Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance ... a heavy bliss.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#14. Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one's mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Algis Valiunas

#15. Knowledge about Him will not do. Work for Him will not do. We must have personal, vital fellowship with Him; otherwise, Christianity becomes a joyless burden.

John Piper

#16. The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

Agnes Repplier

#17. I know nothing," I say, cheerfully.
"You never seem to. Have you ever wondered why that is?"
"It's very deliberate. I've found that knowledge is usually a burden. I prefer to be surprised and then eventually horrified.

Matthew Norman

#18. Let us be kind and lighten the burden of those who are suffering.

Debasish Mridha

#19. One way of pointing to this realization is, when you think you have big problems, ask yourself, "What problem do I have at this moment?" Usually, you will find that you don't have a problem at this moment because you're sitting here and you're breathing, you're looking out the window, and it's fine.

Eckhart Tolle

#20. Give up on love and live freely

Koraly Dimitriadis

#21. I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a splurge.'
It crossed my mind that the world's most efficient psychological evaluation would have just one question: Define splurge.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.

John Keats

#23. A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#24. Revealing her secret to her friends had lightened her burden. She found herself better able to focus, and her mind became a dry sponge soaking up knowledge. Lieutenant Volf may have been a brittle

M.A. Larson

#25. The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

Jay Saunders Redding

#26. My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Evan Dando

#27. The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Beryl Bainbridge

#28. Be a human angel! With love, generosity and kindness, let us lighten the burden of suffering from humanity.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Self-awareness mind helps you build on your strengths and improve on your weaknesses.

Pearl Zhu

#30. His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief ... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss.

Robin Hobb

#31. Some people will find any reason to hate. Don't waste ur time. Lighten up! It takes so much less energy to smile than to hate. Enjoy life.

Ariana Grande

#32. Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

Mikhail Naimy

#33. Knowledge is a burden
once taken up, it can never be discarded.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#34. There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

Jorge Luis Borges

#35. Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Pat Summitt

#36. If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton