William Saroyan on Knowledge
Browse 9 quotations attributed to William Saroyan, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to William Saroyan and filed under "knowledge" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to William Saroyan, entry #12026: "I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful."
Attributed to William Saroyan, entry #48504: "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
9 Quotes by William Saroyan on Knowledge
"I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful."
"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."
"There is much for a young writer to learn from our poorest writers. It is very destructive to burn bad books, almost more destructive than to burn good ones."
"The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better."
"It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give."
"I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness."
"I believe in my work and am eager for others to know about it."
"We know more than we need to know."
"I have been to the place, Armenia. There is no nation there, but that is all the better. But I have been to that place, and I know this: that there is no nation in the world, no England and France and Italy, and no nation whatsoever."