Unshared Knowledge Quotes

My dad never explained anything growing up.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it.

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Some information I just keep to myself.

Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.