#owl

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#ignorance #immemorial #knowledge #our #plane

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#does #door #knowledge #open #should

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. ↗

— James Thurber

#depend #economics #farce #funnier #his

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#against #chances #education #else #equipment

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#early #fairly #knowledge #motivations #our

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 ↗

— Gurdieff

#being #humor #inspirational #observation #outlook

We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#assumed #before #behold #conditions #far

If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. ↗

— Mark Foley

#armenia #armenian #armenian genocide #common #counterparts

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#added #between #difference #him #himself

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#direct #director #ego #energy #enough