Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or society:
“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)