#edge

The only source of knowledge is experience. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge #only #source

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#diffusion #guardian #knowledge #liberty #only

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#education #knowledge #education

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ↗

— Horace Mann

#growth #intelligence #knowledge #opinion #intelligence

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#knowledge #intelligence

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#knowledge #life #living #lost #where

I like walking on the edge. ↗

— Levon Helm

#i #like #walking

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #even #global #global warming #know

I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly as interesting as photographing the edges. ↗

— William Albert Allard

#best #edges #find #i #i think