#edge

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine. ↗

— Jacqueline Kelly

#humor

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#college #emerson #gold #knowledge #wealth

Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#dogma #knowledge #attitude

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #death

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk. ↗

— Travis Barker

#going #i #like #listened #little

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#eventually #fighting #got #grew #had

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#good #good nature #honor #knowledge #money

So that this thing that aired in 1963 would result a few years later in personal bankruptcy, would result in having people be on edge with me, wondering when I'm going to blow up. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#bankruptcy #blow #edge #few #going

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#conquer #enemy #enlightened #foreknowledge #general