#edge

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#ad #been #could #debt #enough

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#knowledge #mankind #sail #thought #vessel

The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#brave #courage #esteemed #hence #highly

Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. ↗

— David Hartman

#deficits #economic #facing #free #free world

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#become #discovery #knowledge #our #quest

In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#again #been #destroyed #fall #germany

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#arms #disarmed #knowledge #men #returned

I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#become #expert #field #greatest #i

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#american people #deal #i #myself #new

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. ↗