#owl

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. ↗

— John Locke

#enable #ends #first #improvement #increase

I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit match at the Rose Bowl, and the crowd streamed in. It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's an overwhelming environment. ↗

— Donal Logue

#billion #bowl #called #crowd #environment

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#adequately #armageddon #bad #both #bring

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#compete #every #every man #everything #expert

We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#cats #dark #dogs #ears #howl

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#fame #glamour #knowledge #reflected #will

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#compensated #his #hundreds #knowledge #millions

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#cases #consumed #exchange #goal #knowledge

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge