Starved For Knowledge Quotes

#1. We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

John Naisbitt

#2. If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

#3. I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I'm driven to reach for it.

Anzia Yezierska

#4. I realized that my friends in the ashram needed to be celibate because, for them, sexuality was a very tacky issue.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I have an idea," I said.
"This better not be a cunning plan," said Leslie.
Nightingale looked blank, but at least it got a chuckle from Dr Walid.

Ben Aaronovitch

#6. We are always growing up. I'm growing up as I type this. An eighty-seven-year-old woman is still technically growing up. So be as immature as you want. Right now, you are the youngest you you're ever going to be.

Mamrie Hart

#7. I want everyday magic.

Christy Hall

#8. Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

Cornel West

#9. They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice

Thornton Wilder

#10. Our most dismaying failure is in the use of our knowledge of what human beings need in the way of bodily and spiritual nourishment. And I suspect that some of the guesses made by our ancestors are partly responsible for the starved bodies and spirits we see everywhere.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult ... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.

Bill Maher