#owl

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

#business #canons #either #evidence #faculty

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#doing #every #free #free access #given

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#always #because #big #broadband #disseminate

Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#carefully #food #freedom #gained #hungry

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. ↗

— Herschel Walker

#come #growing #growing up #had #i

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#ashamed #because #depressed #fact #hopeless

The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#acknowledged #armed #challenge #continued #does

Knowledge is never too dear. ↗

— Francis Walsingham

#knowledge #never #too

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#clever #funny #i #i think #just

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#education #english #far #goes #half-century