Famous Quotes
- So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
- Newt Gingrich on Knowledge
- So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
- Jonathan Kozol on Knowledge
- So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
- Kurt Loder on Knowledge
- Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
- Abraham Cowley on Knowledge
- Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
- Robert Anthony on Knowledge
- Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
- Joshua Foer on Knowledge
- Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
- Lord Byron on Knowledge
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov on Knowledge
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
- Charles Babbage on Knowledge
- Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Knowledge
- Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
- Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
- Matthew Simpson on Knowledge
- Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Knowledge
- Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Knowledge
- That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
- Kenneth Scott Latourette on Knowledge
- That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
- Maria Mitchell on Knowledge
- That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
- Jonathan Dimbleby on Knowledge
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
- Charles Babbage on Knowledge
- That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
- Miroslav Vitous on Knowledge
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
- Charles Caleb Colton on Knowledge
- That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
- Willie Mays on Knowledge
- The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
- David Bohm on Knowledge
- The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
- Michael Gove on Knowledge
- The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
- James Madison on Knowledge
- The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Knowledge
- The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
- Jeremy Bentham on Knowledge
- The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
- William Ralph Inge on Knowledge
- The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
- William S. Burroughs on Knowledge
- The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.
- Tiger Woods on Knowledge
- The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
- James Thurber on Knowledge
- The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
- Arthur Miller on Knowledge
- The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
- Thomas Berger on Knowledge
- The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.
- Robert Delaunay on Knowledge
- The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert on Knowledge
- The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
- Esperanza Spalding on Knowledge
- The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
- Sam Houston on Knowledge
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
- David Bailey on Knowledge
- The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
- Jeremy Taylor on Knowledge
- The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.
- Albert J. Nock on Knowledge
- The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
- Jane Roberts on Knowledge
- The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
- Klaus Fuchs on Knowledge
- The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
- Tom Clancy on Knowledge
- The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus on Knowledge
- The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- Jean Piaget on Knowledge
- The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
- Henry Mayhew on Knowledge
- The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
- Bertrand Russell on Knowledge
- The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon on Knowledge
- The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
- Laurence Sterne on Knowledge
- The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford on Knowledge
- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi on Knowledge
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