#now

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#been #beginning #change #drawing #far

Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#six-nonlectures #truth #wisdom #life

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers. ↗

— Kenneth A. Bruffee

#knowledge #education

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#knowledge #mohammad #life

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#love #pamuk #snow #life

And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do... ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#journey #knowledge #life #life

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. ↗

— Iain Pears

#insufficiency #knowledge #learning #life-lessons #wonder

If you truly want to know a person, talk to their enemies. ↗

— Jamie Leanne Gaines

#friendship #hate #knowing #knowledge #friendship

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#empathy #friendship #knowing #knowledge #meeting