#knowledge

There's nothing more useless than a mind filled with someone else's thoughts. ↗

— Laurie Gray

#knowledge #education

People are either scholars or learners, everyone else are mobs. ↗

— Imam Ali bin abi Taleb

#knowledge #education

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

— Stephen Greenblatt

#education #historians #history #knowledge #shakespeare

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb. ↗

— Thomas More

#knowledge #wisdom #education

All knowledge hurts. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#disillusionment #experience #knowledge #wisdom #experience

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

Arrogance is no substitute for experience,Fey. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#experience

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#imagination #knowledge #respect #art

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#fallen-nations #futility #inevitability #knowledge #learning

Поэтому сказано: если знаешь врага и знаешь себя, твоя победа будет несомненна. Если знаешь Небо и знаешь Землю, твоя победа будет полной. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#war #art