#knowledge

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#observation #study #studying #wisdom #observation

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#knowledge #belief

And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor. Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said. I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning. It's too heavy," I said. Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#father #knowledge #travel

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker ↗

— Bram Stoker

#memory #knowledge

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#knowledge #wisdom #community

I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#forbidden #knowledge #nightshade #censorship

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#dreadful #integrity #knowledge #useless #weak