knowledge

"Poetry and Ostrich Feathers A poet should leave his poem covered with a faint film of fairy dust,inviting the reader to bring his faint heartand an ostrich feather duster to the reading."

"يظن الغمر أن الكتب تهدى ... ... أخاً فهم لإدراك العلوموما يدرى الجهول بأن فيها ... ... غوامض حيرت عقل الفهيمإذا رمت العلوم بغير شيخ ... ... ضللت عن الصراط المستقيموتلتبس الأمور عليك حتى ... ... تصير أضل من 'توما الحكيم"

"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."

"Love's Kiss of Death [10w] Love's kiss of death is taking each another for granted."

"Time is such a waste of time to think about, because the longer you ponder it, the more of it you lose. And before you know it, you don’t know it, because you are nothing but dusty worm food."

"We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds."

"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."

"It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple."

"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."

"The Machismo Motto [10w] "When we are not hard as nails we get screwed."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing."

"Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature."

"Ruth Whither thou goest, I will go ~as long as it's to the mall.I heard Dillard's is having an 80% off sale!"

"Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing."

"To know is good, but to know how to use that knowledge is better. And to acknowledge the wisdom in this is the best."

"Love is something to be treated with awe. Or should it be aww? People don’t know my capacity for love. If you tried to bottle it up, I’m sure it would take at least three thermoses to contain it. And if it did get contained, would you drink my love black, or would you add cream and sugar?"

"Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Out-of-the-Box [10w] I march to my own drummerin a drum circle."