#edge

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss. ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#knowledge #wisdom #beauty

If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#age #been #between #classical #considerable

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barrier #determination #development #feelings #help

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#culture #encourage #human #intuition #intuitive

I am knowledgeable enough about the world of prizes to realize that there is a large degree of luck - both for the recognitions that you receive and those that you did not. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #both #degree #did #enough

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#chat #i #knowledge #likes #pass

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them. ↗

— Earnest Gellner

#ideas #knowledge #language #thought #change

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. ↗

— Abdullah Ibrahim

#change #converge #find #knowledge #mind

I know. Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#experience #humour #knowledge #smell #experience

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. ↗

— William Kirby

#conjunction #consulting #cooperation #create #cultural