“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”

“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.”

“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")”

“We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.”

“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”

“In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.”