#led

The only value of wasted time is knowledge. ↗

— Monica Drake

#knowledge #philosophy #wasted-time #inspirational

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#fit #hero #mentally #others #physically

The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business. ↗

— Peter Scott

#battalion #being #being there #business #everybody

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#failed #failure #great #question #whether

human desires are the main cause of suffering ↗

— Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

#knowledge #life #salvation #inspirational

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#imagination #knowledge #sign #true

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#close-mindedness #intelligence #isaac-asimov #knowledge #open-mind

Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#truth #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #intelligence

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#children #curiosity #knowledge #philosophers #philosophy