“One must know how to enter the ideas of others and how to leave them. One must know how to leave one's own ideas and how to come back to them.”

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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Bruce Wilshire (1932–2015) American philosopher

Source: Fashionable Nihilism (2002), p. 4

“It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Source: Marjorie's Three Gifts

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“Money really is a great power, only one must know how to use it.”

Bolesław Prus book The Doll

The Doll

“After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“My time is over," he said. "The knife knows when to leave one hand and settle in another, and I know how to tell”

Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy

Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
Context: "Now," said Giacomo Paradisi, "here you are, take the knife, it is yours."
"I don't want it," said Will. "I don't want anything to do with it."
"You haven't got the choice," said the old man. "You are the bearer now."
"I thought you said you was," said Lyra.
"My time is over," he said. "The knife knows when to leave one hand and settle in another, and I know how to tell..."