#owl

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. ↗

— Richard Wright

#beaten #books #dream #experience #i

The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ↗

— John Conyers

#across #american #american troops #build #casey

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#back #care #family history #generations #goes

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. ↗

— Ralph Cudworth

#creatures #else #eternal #god #immutable

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#deer #fox #going #i #often

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given. ↗

— David Coverdale

#actually #been #better #explore #gift

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back. ↗

— Hume Cronyn

#bad #bad time #crawling #dwell #gone

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. ↗

— Howard Crosby

#along #beginning #causation #coming #down

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge. ↗

— Nate Silver

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