#edge

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#commodity #contrary #diffusion #dispersion #grows

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this! ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#did #freud #functions #know #knowledge

We are at the edge of an abyss and we're close to being irrevocably lost. ↗

— David R. Brower

#being #close #edge #irrevocably #lost

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

#aside #beginning #cannot #comprehended #corrupt

It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. ↗

— James Lafferty

#been #collectors #common #common knowledge #finest

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#about #basis #better #daily #daily basis

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#actually #always #clothes #comment #cook

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#einstein #few #knowledge #now #philosophers

The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#becoming #christian #done #faith #gladly

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing