#knowledge

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#air #believe #between #bright #considering

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#feelings #i #i do #lot #people

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#grew #had #harbor #invented #knowledge

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#cast #evil #generations #good #ignorance

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#body #considered #culture #define #forgotten

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#gone #higher #him #his #history

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#crisis #hope #i #japan #knowledge

Acknowledge that a more closely integrated Europe is no longer an unqualified American interest. ↗

— Richard Perle

#american #closely #europe #integrated #interest

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#concealment #ever #given #grace #impart