#knowledge

I only know that I know nothing ↗

— Socrates

#intellect #knowledge #philosophy #wisdom #intellect

All things are strange which are worth knowing. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#knowledge #odd #strange #bizarre

Curiosity is more important than knowledge. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge #curiosity

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#certainty #humility #knowledge #policy #humility

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything... ↗

— Thomas Henry Huxley

#skepticism #thinking #skepticism

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#limitations-of-knowledge #tribalism #arrogance

Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night. ↗

— François Fénelon

#self-knowledge #sin #spiritual-growth #self-growth

O tolo vomita, o sábio engole. ↗

— Provérbio Indiano

#wisdom #wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#fathers #generations #knowledge #relationships #sons

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life #life