“I am so satiated with the great number of detestable books with which we are inundated that I am reduced to punting at faro.”

― Voltaire, Candide

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“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, Analects

“Joy and grief were mingled in the cup; but there were no bitter tears: for even grief itself arose so softened, and clothed in such sweet and tender recollections, that it became a solemn pleasure, and lost all character of pain.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“The question upon which the whole future peace and policy of the world depends is this: Is the present war a struggle for a just and secure peace or only for a new balance of power? If it be only a struggle for a new balance of power, who will...”

― Woodrow Wilson, A World League For Peace

“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?”

― Confucius, Analects

“The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

“Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults—ah!—there is the sting of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

“We control life, Winston, at all its levels. You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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