#edge

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#brave #courage #esteemed #hence #highly

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. ↗

— David Hartman

#deficits #economic #facing #free #free world

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#become #discovery #knowledge #our #quest

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#again #been #destroyed #fall #germany

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#become #expert #field #greatest #i

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #deal #i #myself #new

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#exist #faster #going #helpful #i

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#beware #dangerous #false #ignorance #knowledge

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality