#know

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today. ↗

— Idries Shah

#big-picture #lack-of-knowledge #lack-of-perspective #rigidity #design

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#do you know #doubt #happened #horrible #i

I know my swing is going to be there. I don't need 600 swings in the cage; I know where it's at. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#going #i #know #need #swing

Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ignorance #knowledge #life #life

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#work #dreams

philosophy I studied philosophy for four years. But I'd trade everything I learned for this passage... quoted in the Britannica: 'But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.' Amen. ↗

— A.J. Jacobs

#dreams

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#dreams #knowledge #learning #dreams

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge-wisdom #learning #school #science #wisdom

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward. ↗

— John Turturro

#because #easy #hard #know #romance

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. ↗

— Malcolm X

#awareness #change #education #knowledge #revolution