#edge

The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies. ↗

— Werner Heisenberg

#philosophy #science #unknowing #science

إن العلم للإسلام كالحياة للإنسان، ولن يجد هذا الدين مستقراً له إلا عند أصحاب المعارف الناضجة والألباب الحصيفة. ↗

— محمد الغزالي

#knowledge #science #science

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch ↗

— J.A. Huss

#fledge #flight #i-am-just-junco #j-a-huss #science-fiction

These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#nature #nature

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#being-alone #self-knowledge #time

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing. ↗

— Voltaire

#self-knowledge #wisdom #wisdom

Any fool can know. The point is to understand. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#learning #understanding #wisdom #wisdom

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. ↗

— Jane Austen

#women #women

There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#interesting #personality #self-knowledge #different

You are all awesome like woah. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#wings-acknoledgements #awesome