#knowledge

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. ↗

— Alfred Schnittke

#after #am #become #country #emigration

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#amount #biggest #disorder #far #far less

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#knowledge #learning #our #rests #upon

A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#battle #lost #which #will #won

I was going through a little bit of turbulence in my career. And so, it's funny how turbulence itself will make you hold onto something for security. And so the only thing I knew is trust in the Lord and lean not unto your own heart, in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path. ↗

— Emmitt Smith

#bit #career #direct #funny #going

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#doorstep #ignorance #knowledge #our #own

To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. ↗

— David Soul

#deal #did #hard #having #hit

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considerable #extent #ignorance #just #knowledge

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#considered #conveyor #coordinated #effective #fast