#owl

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#been #blessed #career #had #i

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie. ↗

— Criss Jami

#divine #divinity #faith #freedom-of-thought #god

Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals! ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#knowledge #philosophy #politics #socialism #freedom

Time is such a waste of time to think about, because the longer you ponder it, the more of it you lose. And before you know it, you don’t know it, because you are nothing but dusty worm food. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #knowledge #loss #ponder

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. ↗

— T.H. White

#friends #friendship #owls #friendship

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

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#self-knowledge #temptation #funny

I want to take all the pain of humanity, ball it up into a compressed, black 16-pound sphere, add three holes in a triangular formation to it, and use it to bowl a strike. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humanity #pain #funny

I can’t believe I’ve missed this sport. It’s all about fingering holes and caressing balls. ↗

— K.A. Mitchell

#funny #k-a-mitchell #sport #funny