知道
You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
"We are all searching for something, but we don't always know what it is. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's a place, and sometimes it's just a feeling."
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.
"Every word knows something of a vicious circle."
"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."
The truth is that we are all searching for something, but we don't know what it is.
"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."
本当の勇気とは、怖いことを知っていながら、それでも前に進むことだ。
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The study of mathematics is like air or gravity—it is everywhere, and you can't see it, but you know it's there.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
"The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know."
The more we learn about the universe, the more we realize how much we don't know.
"The more we delve into the quantum world, the more we realize how much we don't know."