Quotes by T. S. Eliot

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Home is where one starts from.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.