#know

I began with the desire to speak with the dead. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#education #historians #history #knowledge #shakespeare

Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#knowing #skills #education

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisionsabout the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#knowledge #teacher-s-speech #teachers-know-best #terwilliger #education

All the educated people I've met are in desperate need of being educated. ↗

— Pedro Matias

#knowledge #wisdom #education

Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history. ↗

— Walter M. Miller Jr.

#knowledge #education

Children usually have a natural curiosity about the world and everything in it until they get to school and somebody throws them against the locker because they get A's and act intelligent. After that, some kids try to dumb it down and adapt. ↗

— Joshua Neik

#education #education-system #intelligence #knowledge #wisdom

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal. ↗

— Karl Popper

#knowledge #wisdom #equality

A lot of the conflict you have in your life exists simply because you're not living in alignment; you're not be being true to yourself. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #self-knowledge #true-to-yourself

Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower, or a a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell musty and-and-and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is a - it, uh, it has no no texture, no-no context. It's-it's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then-then the getting of knowledge should be, uh, tangible, it should be, um, smelly. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#knowledge #senses #experience

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#knowledge #life #poetry #experience