Quoty search results for tag: knowledge http://www.quoty.org/tag/knowledge He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Author: Thomas Jefferson, Source: unknown
Saved by libertyquotes in liberty knowledge ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6690Why they are alive I don't know, but I'm afraid they won't live long: they are sunken and grey-faced and just strong enough to say, 'Anyway, I'm out of the trench now.'

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 69
Saved by highflyingbabe in knowledge masculinity death trauma wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6496When I think of your Red Cross practises on boy scouts, and the grim reality, it makes one wonder. And the biggest wonder of it all is the grit there is in them, and the price they are individually and unquestioningly paying for doing their bit in this War.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 23
Saved by highflyingbabe in patriotism experience knowledge death futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6492The men from Mons told us 'it wasn't fighting--it was murder.'

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 13
Saved by highflyingbabe in knowledge death futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6491the 'carnage' is being appauling, and we have been practically in it, as far as horrors go.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 42
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge witness horror trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6486Imagine a hospital as big as King's College Hospital all packed into a train, and having to be self-provisioned, water, sanitated, lil, cleaned, doctored and nursed and staffed and officered, all within its own limits. No outside person can realise the difficulties except those who try to work it.

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 36
Saved by highflyingbabe in suffering knowledge home hospital witness trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6485many very bad cases, fractures spine, a nearly dying lung case, a boy with wound in lung and live, three pneumonias, some bad enterics (though the worst had not been moved).

Author: Anonymous, Source: Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915, 35
Saved by highflyingbabe in body suffering knowledge masculinity witness trauma wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6484"He's been dangerously wounded-and it doesn't say how!" It didn't say how. Now that I knew so much about wounds, that vagueness seemed the telegram's worst infliction.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 339
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge hospital wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6471One could not, he said, continually reflect upon the material and spiritual waste involved whenever that highly trained product, a man in the prime of life, was instantaneously killed by a stray bullet, or life at the front would be one long misery.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth,
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge death shield horror trauma futility helpless ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6469The ironies of war, I reflected sadly, were more than strange; in terms of a rational universe they were quite inexplicable. But now the universe had become irrational, and nothing was turning out as it once seemed to have been ordained.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 287-8
Saved by highflyingbabe in patriotism experience knowledge death trauma ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6460They sound ludicrous enough now, these rumours, these optimisms, these assurances, to us who still wonder why, in spite of all our incompetence, we managed to "win" the War. But at the time they helped us to live. I cannot, indeed, imagine how long we should have succeeded in living without them.

Author: Vera Brittain, Source: Testament of Youth, 163
Saved by highflyingbabe in suffering experience knowledge guilt horror trauma futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6438an apprenticeship in pain, desolation and grief. Yet one of the problems of such 'apprenticeship in history'-something less often spoken about-is the issue of owning experience.

Author: Santanu Das, Source: Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, 226
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge gender horror ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6419there is a frightful compromise which generates a sense of impropriety in the act of witnessing, of the nurse registering the shame of the patient at his awareness of the nurse's knowledge.

Author: Santanu Das, Source: Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, 225
Saved by highflyingbabe in experience knowledge witness sexuality touch ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6418The detailed, often gruesome, descriptions of wounds that one finds in nurses' memoirs is not only prompted by the weight of memory but is also an attempt to transmit the pain.

Author: Santanu Das, Source: Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, 218
Saved by highflyingbabe in body knowledge writing horror trauma wound ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6410there were also feelings of guilt and shame resulting from the involvement, voluntary or involuntary, in the nationalist and patriarchal war machine through the institution of nursing.

Author: Santanu Das, Source: Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature, 202
Saved by highflyingbabe in duty experience knowledge hospital guilt futility ]]>http://www.quoty.org/quote/6395