#led

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#been #brought #centre #could #everything

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#wit

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#sin

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#fate

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#hard-boiled #wonderland #world #manners

All things are strange which are worth knowing. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#knowledge #odd #strange #bizarre

Curiosity is more important than knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge #curiosity

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#certainty #humility #knowledge #policy #humility

That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#people #prejudice #prejudice

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#descriptive #khaled #scared #description