#edge

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. ↗

— Felix Adler

#efforts #information #knowledge #law #legal

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ↗

— John Acton

#burden #emancipation #knowledge #obstacle #past

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

#deposited #eminently #experience #future #goes

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#been #daughters #eve #fine #fine thing

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#give #hedgehog #just #mirror #out

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#actually #because #class #dance #edge

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

#another #controversies #era #find #knowledge

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

#grand #ignorance #increasingly #knowledge #larger

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#become #integral #iranian #knowledge #now

Golf isn't just about hitting a lot of drivers. I grew up playing on my front lawn, chipping and putting into soup cans, out of the ivy and over rose bushes and hedges - the little Alcott Golf and Country Club. I just loved having a wedge in my hands. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#bushes #cans #chipping #club #country