#oran

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. ↗

— Atwood H. Townsend

#study #willful-ignorance #business

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me? ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#close-mindedness #criticism #drugs #ignorance #judgmental

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #ignorance #intellect #business

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#ignorance #life #love #man #death

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#education #ignorance #change

all appears to change when we change ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#knowledge #perception #wisdom #change

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#knowledge #writing #change

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry. The Korova Milkbar was a milk-plus mesto, and you may, O my brothers, have forgotten what these mestos were like, things changing so skorry these days, and everybody very quick to forget, newspapers not being read much neither. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#anthony-burgess #change

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986 ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#american #intro #introduction #irony #philosophical

... classical Arabic, being the language of the Qur'an, has not changed at all in fourteen centuries, making the writings of the early Islamic scholars as accessible today as they were then. ↗

— Jim Al-Khalili

#classical-arabic #koran #qur-an #quran #change