#edge

..."stupidity: a process, not a state. A human being takes in far more information that he or she can put out. 'Stupidity' is a process or strategy by which a human, in response to social denigration of the information [they] put[] out, commits [themself] to taking in no more information than [they] can put out. (Not to be confused with ignorance, or lack of data.) Since such a situation is impossible to achieve because of the nature of mind.perception itself in its relation to the functioning body, a continuing downward spiral of functionality and/or informative dissemination results." and he understood why! "The process, however, can be reversed," the voice continued," at any time... ↗

— Samuel R. Delany

#edited-for-gender-binaryisms #ignorance #knowledge #stupidity #nature

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self. ↗

— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#knowledge #wisdom #religion

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#god #knowledge #religion #science #the-universe

But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#knowledge #muslims #questioning-religion #religion #religion

Faith is your guide in the absence of knowledge. ↗

— Toba Beta

#faith-guide #knowledge #faith

There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God. ↗

— Lorenzo Snow

#happiness #knowledge #faith

I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#self-knowledge #family

Imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is finite. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#imagination #knowledge #imagination

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#friendship #knowledge #people #society #wisdom

Before he'd met Anna, he'd thought he'd known what love was, thought he'd understood about friendship, romance, all o fit, but he hadn't - not at all. Until he'd held Anna in his arms, until he'd let her see his soul, until he'd heard her cry gently when he made love to her for the first time, he'd known nothing. ↗

— Gemma Malley

#knowledge #love #peter-pincent #resistance #surplus-anna