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Random quote of the day:

“The greatest evil in our country today is not racism, but ignorance. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than to believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

–Septima Poinsette Clark, Annual Christmas message⁠, 1975

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Random quote of the day:

“It's so easy to think we have superior knowledge, that our understanding is better. We love to correct the errors of the past in terms of what we now think is true. But who's going to correct our errors? Everyone used to know that the sun goes round the earth; now everyone believes they know that the earth goes round the sun. The trouble is that every great step in understanding always demolishes and overturns the knowledge that went before. People will only look back on us in the way we look back at the past.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Random quote of the day:

“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. All too often, that’s more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, and are left with the sad, sterile little fact: ‘Unicorns aren’t real.’”

—Ursula K. LeGuin, The Language of the Night

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Random quote of the day:

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could but bring it into the light of day, if we dogs would but own that we know infinitely more than we admit to ourselves!”

—Franz Kafka, “Investigations of a Dog”

Random quote of the day:

“If you trust in yourself and believe in your dreams and follow your star, you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

—Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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Random quote of the day:

“Happiness, knowledge, not in another place but this place, not for
another hour but this hour…”

—Walt Whitman, “A Song for Occupations”

Random quote of the day:

“Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ignorance than they are of the political devastation that knowledge can bring.”

—Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

Random quote of the day:

“What I've come to know is that in life, it's not always the questions we ask, but rather our ability to hear the answers that truly enriches our understanding. Never, never stop learning.”

—attributed to Lester Holt

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Random quote of the day:

“In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which, in our rare moments of grace, we are able to decipher a small fragment.”

—Arthur Koestler, The Invisible Writing

Random quote of the day:

“Never be afraid to learn from the ether….That’s where knowledge lives before someone hunts it, kills it, and mounts it in a book.”

—Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

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Random quote of the day:

“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.”

—Abraham J. Heschel, Man Is Not Alone

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass, which is something everyone knows, no matter how small his or her knowledge.”

—Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces (tr. Cedric Belfrage)

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Random quote of the day:

“Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge; it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.”

—Sri Aurobindo, Thoughts and Aphorisms

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“I’m not afraid of annihilation. I’m not afraid of death. But I just want to know more…before I go.”

—Maurice Sendak, The Paris Review, December 27, 2011

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“I’m not afraid of annihilation. I’m not afraid of death. But I just want to know more…before I go.”

—Maurice Sendak, The Paris Review, December 27, 2011

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Random quote of the day:

“Each generation see[s]…sparks which we ignore just because they don’t fit into our picture of science or knowledge.”

—Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Paris Review, Fall 1968, No. 44

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Mirrored from Better Than Dead.