#knowledge

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#learning #poetry #sophomoric #criticism

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. ↗

— Al-Ghazali

#knowledge #sufism #wisdom #islam

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#knowledge #siddhartha #unity #world #unity

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#knowledge #love #education

I only know that I know nothing ↗

— Socrates

#intellect #knowledge #philosophy #wisdom #intellect

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility? ↗

— Robert Casey

#assume #dignity #human #human dignity #people

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. ↗

— Iain Pears

#insufficiency #knowledge #learning #life-lessons #wonder

I do not understand a man who does not want to know all that he can know. Why would anyone choose ignorance? If he chooses ignorance because he is lay, then he is a fool, for the ignorant are put to hard labor digging and hauling stones for masters who tell them they need no knowledge. If a man must labor from dawn to dusk to avoid a blow on the head and to earn a cup of grain, he has no time to gain knowledge and remains a slave to masters. I think, therefore, that is is a worthy vocation to free a man enough that he can learn who he is and what he is capable of, where he came from and what philosophies steer his life. ↗

— Kate Horsley

#knowledge #life #philosophy #life

Even one voice in a wilderness of ignorance is a voice that is heard by someone. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#knowledge #life-lessons #power #truth #life

To the man of science, on his unassuming and laborious travels, which must often enough be journeys through the desert, there appear those glittering mirages called 'philosophical systems'; with bewitching deceptive power they show the solution of all enigmas and the freshest draught of the true water of life to be near at hand; his heart rejoices, and it seems to the weary traveller that his lips already touch the goal of all the perseverance and sorrows of the scientific life... Other natures again, may well grow exceedingly ill-humoured and curse the salty taste which these apparitions leave behind in the mouth and from which arises a raging thirst – without one having been brought so much as a step nearer to any kind of spring. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#enigma #goals #knowledge #mirages #science