#knowledge

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons #smart

Ignorance is fatal. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #fatal #ignorance #knowledge #ray

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#knowledge #death

You are unwilling to pay that price, even knowing that the consolation prize is not only to learn every philosophy that has ever existed, but ones which have not yet been conceived? Even knowing that if you do not accept, you will soon cease to learn anything at all?" Raimund tilted his head, still staring into my eyes, and I knew he must see the tears filling them, though I held them back from falling. "My friend," he whispered, "do you really believe your own words, I wonder? Your pain makes me think you know that death is not the end of learning, but only the beginning. ↗

— Krisi Keley

#knowledge #death

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#knowledge #loved-ones #death

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income

Follow your heart, but don't lose your mind along the way. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#follow-your-heart #knowledge #wisdom #dreams

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb. ↗

— Thomas More

#knowledge #wisdom #education

History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisionsabout the future. ↗

— Richelle Mead

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All the educated people I've met are in desperate need of being educated. ↗

— Pedro Matias

#knowledge #wisdom #education