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Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.


Terry Goodkind


#knowledge

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.


Alexander Pope


#learning #poetry #sophomoric #criticism

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.


Al-Ghazali


#knowledge #sufism #wisdom #islam

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.


C.S. Lewis


#knowledge

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.


Gustave Flaubert


#knowledge #madness #doubt

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.


Christine de Pizan


#education #empowerment #inequality #knowledge #men

Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.


Patrick Rothfuss


#math #riddles #math

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon we can exclaim like the wise man; righteousness exalteth a nation; for righteousness embraces knowledge and knowledge is power.


Joseph Smith Jr.


#inspiriational #knowledge #lds #mormon #religion

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.


A.S. Byatt


#knowledge #wisdom #community

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.


Hermann Hesse


#knowledge #siddhartha #unity #world #unity






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