Famous Quotes
- People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
- Tom Clancy on Knowledge
- People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
- Van Wyck Brooks on Knowledge
- Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
- Irving Babbitt on Knowledge
- Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
- Albert J. Nock on Knowledge
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
- Khalil Gibran on Knowledge
- Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
- Leonard Orr on Knowledge
- Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
- Russell Simmons on Knowledge
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Thomas Sowell on Knowledge
- Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
- George Boole on Knowledge
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
- Roger Babson on Knowledge
- Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Knowledge
- Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
- Georges Bernanos on Knowledge
- Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
- Paul Watzlawick on Knowledge
- Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski on Knowledge
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke on Knowledge
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
- Thomas Arnold on Knowledge
- Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
- Derek Jacobi on Knowledge
- Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
- Michael Ramsey on Knowledge
- Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
- Amy Waldman on Knowledge
- Research is creating new knowledge.
- Neil Armstrong on Knowledge
- Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
- Albrecht Durer on Knowledge
- Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
- David Hume on Knowledge
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
- Jacques Barzun on Knowledge
- Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
- Seth Lloyd on Knowledge
- Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
- Philip K. Dick on Knowledge
- Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
- Will Durant on Knowledge
- Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
- Alexis Carrel on Knowledge
- Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Knowledge
- Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
- Carl Sagan on Knowledge
- Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
- Luther Burbank on Knowledge
- Science is organized knowledge.
- Herbert Spencer on Knowledge
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant on Knowledge
- Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
- Hippocrates on Knowledge
- Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
- Thomas Hobbes on Knowledge
- Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
- Louis Pasteur on Knowledge
- Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
- Louis Pasteur on Knowledge
- Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
- Paul Davies on Knowledge
- Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
- John Charles Polanyi on Knowledge
- Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
- Max Planck on Knowledge
- Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
- Jean-Francois Lyotard on Knowledge
- Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
- Jean Piaget on Knowledge
- Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking on Knowledge
- Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.
- Harry Browne on Knowledge
- Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
- Wendell Phillips on Knowledge
- Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
- Andrew Coyle Bradley on Knowledge
- Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- Henry Miller on Knowledge
- Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
- Daisaku Ikeda on Knowledge
- Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
- So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
- Tippi Hedren on Knowledge
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