Secret Knowledge Quotes

• I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to.

  Leonard Peltier

  Mistake, Past, Compassion

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.201, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

  Daniel Quinn

  Secret, Library, Facts

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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• Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

  Annie Dillard

  Ideas, Joy, Secret

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.174, Canongate Books

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• Poring over fragments of other people's lives, peering into their bedrooms when they don't know we're there, we thrill to the glamour and the power of secret knowledge, partly detoxified but also heightened by being shared.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  People, Secret, Thrill

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1985). “Gossip”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

  Andree Putman

  Beautiful, Feelings, Secret

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• The only secret knowledge we have is know-how and you can't break up know-how by court order.

  Herbert Kalmus

  Order, Secret, Break

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• If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

  Alan Kay

  Secret, World, Java

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.

  David Mamet

  Home, People, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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