Audre Lorde Quotes

All wish to know, but few the price will pay.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Nothing of value is free.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

We are wiser than we know.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.

Nothing good happens without a penalty.

It's important to be enlightened.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Nothing comes without a price.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Every advantage has its tax.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.