#owl

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#aspires #believes #dangerous #example #greater

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#acknowledged #declaration #equals #everything #independence

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#bowl #certain #even #events #everyone

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. ↗

— Frances Wright

#equal #equality #exercise #genius #how

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it. ↗

— Frances Wright

#every #human #human being #knowledge #may

The people need to know that the people need to know. And I’m just the man to let them know that they need to know. However, what they need to know, I do not know. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#knowledge #life #needs #people #life

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#life

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#deep #down #dream #eyes #fire

About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. ↗

— Frank Yerby

#above #almost #broadened #continent #fifteen

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. ↗

— Brigham Young

#light #possession #received #some #source