T. S. Eliot on knowledge
T. S. Eliot77 quotes“If you aren’t in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot The visible reminder of Invisible Light.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We don’t actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot We do not pass through the same door twice Or return to the door through which we did not pass.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Books. Cats. Life is good.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot In my end is my beginning.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. EliotT. S. Eliot
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