To Know Quotes

“On the train I saw that world passing my window. It was when I came to see it was I who was passing that my self-centered childhood was over. But it was not until I began to write, that I found the world out there revealing, because memory had become attached to seeing, love had added itself to discovery, and because I recognized in my own continuing longing to keep going, the need I carried inside myself to know - the apprehension, first, and then the passion, to connect myself to it. Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it. This is, of course, simply saying that the outside world is the vital component of my inner life. My imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember of my living world. But I was to learn slowly that both these worlds, outer and inner, were different from what they seemed to me in the beginning.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“We learn precisely enough to keep us from wanting to know any more”
― Greg Egan, Axiomatic

“To know and feel the brightest starlight that is within us all is to become the bright white light of spirit.”
― Jazz Feylynn

“What could be the meaning of it? It was impossible to imagine; it was impossible not to long to know.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence