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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this.
— Toni Morrison
Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder
— Toni Morrison
None of them knew the downright pleasure of enchantment, of not suspecting but knowing the things behind things.
— Toni Morrison
The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read it
— Toni Morrison
Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas as well; it can dismiss the difficult, arduous work writers do to make an art that becomes and remains part of and significant within a human landscape.
— Toni Morrison
One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge.
— Toni Morrison
One of the most malevolent characteristics of racist thought is that it never produces new knowledge. It seems able to merely reformulate and refigure itself in multiple but static assertions
— Toni Morrison
Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).
— Tony Evans
The best way to avoid meaningless repetition is to continue getting to know God. The better you know a person, the more the two of you have to discuss. Whenever you learn something new about our great God, include that in your prayer life.
— Tony Evans
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. —Vince Lombardi, What It Takes to Be Number One
— Tony Evans
Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty. The
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Pastor-theologians know something that others do not know, and they know it because the Bible tells them so. To be instructed by the Spirit in the school of the Scriptures is to be, as Peter and John had been, "with Jesus." What pastor-theologians know is something quite particular (what God was doing in Christ) but has enormous, even universal, implications.
— Kevin Vanhoozer