#knowledge

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them. ↗

— Earnest Gellner

#ideas #knowledge #language #thought #change

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ↗

— Virginia Gildersleeve

#community #education #fit #future #into

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#barack obama #debate #fine #happy #him

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ↗

— William Hague

#best #self-knowledge #tempered

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. ↗

— Samuel Horsley

#curiosity #discover #ends #even #idiot

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way. ↗

— Ted Levine

#along #deliberately #helped #life #making

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. ↗

— Lou Harrison

#both #control #dangerous #get #knowledge

I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#developed #i #knowledge #listened #little

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God. ↗

— John Jewel

#god #hath #knowledge #man #soul

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. ↗

— John Jewel

#dark #geometry #human #human knowledge #knowledge