#owl

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#crazy #knowledge #learn #takes #taught

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

#inspirational #self-knowledge #inspirational

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#god #knowledge #soul #inspirational

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing. ↗

— Chidi Okonkwo

#inspirational-quotes #knowledge #sci-fi #science #science-fiction

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#men

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#truth #men

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#games #knowledge #truth #men

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#self-knowledge #men

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown? ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#men #occult-and-women #men