#led

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#math #reality #science #science

What do you see when you look in the mirror?' 'I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks.' Harry stared. 'One can never have enough socks,' said Dumbledore. 'Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#mirror-of-erised #presents #christmas

Wisest is she who knows she does not know. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#self-knowledge #knowledge

a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. ↗

— Mark Twain

#lesson #knowledge

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care ↗

— John C. Maxwell

#knowledge #knowledge

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#knowledge

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge

Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. ↗

— Dan Brown

#knowledge

knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough,we must do.. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#knowledge

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#learning #twenty #knowledge