The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.
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Quote:- The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world instructs us first of all that the world is greater than our knowledge of it. To those who rejoice in the abundance and intricacy in Creation, this is a source of joy, as it is to those who rejoice in freedom...To those would-be solvers of "the human problem," who hope for knowledge equal to (capable of controlling) the world, it is a source of unremitting defeat and bewilderment. The evidence is overwhelming that knowledge does not solve "the human problem." Indeed, the evidence overwhelmingly suggests - with Genesis - that knowledge is the problem. Or perhaps we should say instead that all our problems tend to gather under two questions about knowledge: Having the ability and desire to know, how and what should we learn? And, having learned, how and for what should we use what we know? (pg. 183, People, Land, and Community)
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
Author:- Wendell Berry
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Author:- Leonardo da Vinci
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The act of divorce shows the immaturity of the human being in love. We think and imagine that we know so much about love, but we don't know anything at all.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- The act of sinning is to allow your will to become rebellious, or do the things wrong that are under your own control.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- The act of slowing down filters and simplifies so we can priorities.
Author:- Jodi Livon
Category:- best
Quote:- The action of acknowledging that you were in the wrong can make others trust you.
Author:- Mitta Xinindlu
Category:- Life
Quote:- The activities of our existence confuse and cause fear. This is because we base everything on temporary superficiality and details. Thus, we define our life experience as something to reach with strenuous effort. Mind Conditioning overshadows our life experience. So, most people view balance and harmony as a fantasy or paradise. Furthermore, the majority of people think or belief that we can only reach this paradise through mind details. And, still very prevalent is the thought or belief that materialistic things will give us happiness and peace.
Love Will Show You the Way: Choosing the Path of Least Resistance
Author:- Steve Leasock
Category:- Love
Quote:- The adaptation of spirituality is the only solution to the problems of the world. We must go beyond corporeal desires.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love,Life
Quote:- The adjective heard most often is magical. The pure magic of living light harkens back to childhood fantasies of secret grottos, wizards’ caves and unicorn haunts, where the mushrooms in fairy rings glow with cold green fire and a wave of the hand sends multicolored sparks streaming from fingertips. Real-world encounters with some enchantments manifest as children chasing fireflies on warm summer nights, lovers strolling a beach hand in hand with the Milky Way overhead while sprinklings of sea sparkle gild their footprints in the sand, and kayakers on a moonless night creating luminous blue explosions and sprays of liquid light with each dip and arc of their paddles.
Author:- Dr Edith Widder
Category:- science
Quote:- The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.
Author:- James Madison
Category:- science,knowledge
Quote:- The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.
The Complete Essays
Author:- Michel de Montaigne
Category:- time
Quote:- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Author:- oscar wilde
Category:- science
Quote:- The adventure begins as soon as we start dreaming it.
I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
Author:- Jean-Philippe Soulé
Category:- Life
Quote:- The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.
Author:- Chuck Close
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The African culture can’t be the same as the European, or the European to be similar to the American culture.
Destiny of Liberty
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Love
Quote:- The aging chose the years of their youth, yet the young, who were not even born then, would have to live in those years. There was a certain injustice in that - choosing the time the next generation would live in. As happens in all elections, actually.
Author:- Gospodinov Georgi
Category:- time
Quote:- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Author:- Aristotle
Category:- philosophy