#edge

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength. ↗

— Antonio Gramsci

#beat #breaks #consists #head #knowledge

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#excel #excellent #extent #had #i

We cannot shun our values as an immigrant nation. This is a wrong path. And while possibly it is a short-term political victory based on division and based on creating a wedge issue that splits people in this country, it is a long-term defeat for this Nation. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#cannot #country #creating #defeat #division

Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of human sight. This habituation to the monopoly of visualization-on-command strongly suggests that only those things that can in some way be visualized, recorded, and replayed at will are part of reality...The result is a strange mistrusts of our own eyes, a disposition to take as real only that which is mechanically displayed in a photograph, a statistical curve, or a table. Eyewitness testimony must be "substantiated" by records that have been acquired, and can be stored and then shown. ↗

— Barbara Duden

#knowledge #pregnancy #science #sight #the-unborn

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows. ↗

— George Gurdjieff

#beginning #help #him #knowledge #knows

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#glass #good-will #heart #here #hopeless

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Moses Hadas

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#divine #energies #every #ideas #inexpressible

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. ↗

— Edith Hamilton

#great #historical #knowledge #literature #people