Famous Quotes
- It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
- Marcel Proust on Knowledge
- It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
- Frederick Sanger on Knowledge
- It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.
- Harriet Martineau on Knowledge
- It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
- Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
- It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
- Joseph Wood Krutch on Knowledge
- It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
- Carl Friedrich Gauss on Knowledge
- It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
- William Ellery Channing on Knowledge
- It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Knowledge
- It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
- Marilu Henner on Knowledge
- It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
- Dolley Madison on Knowledge
- It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
- Wilbur Wright on Knowledge
- It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
- Talcott Parsons on Knowledge
- It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
- Emma Thompson on Knowledge
- It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
- Talcott Parsons on Knowledge
- It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Knowledge
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein on Knowledge
- It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
- Henry James Sumner Maine on Knowledge
- It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
- Jean Piaget on Knowledge
- It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Knowledge
- It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Knowledge
- It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
- Sally Ride on Knowledge
- It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
- Thomas Sowell on Knowledge
- It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
- Brooks Atkinson on Knowledge
- It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
- Arto Lindsay on Knowledge
- It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
- Marc Davis on Knowledge
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.
- Charles Babbage on Knowledge
- It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
- Sylvester Stallone on Knowledge
- It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.
- Miranda Richardson on Knowledge
- It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
- Michael Nesmith on Knowledge
- It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
- Chris Cleave on Knowledge
- It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.
- Christopher Shays on Knowledge
- It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
- Cybill Shepherd on Knowledge
- It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
- Ayumi Hamasaki on Knowledge
- It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.
- Jamie Oliver on Knowledge
- It's kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I'm now working in the security field as a public speaker.
- Kevin Mitnick on Knowledge
- It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.
- John Hawkes on Knowledge
- It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.
- David Krumholtz on Knowledge
- It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
- Doug Coupland on Knowledge
- Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
- Nathan Deal on Knowledge
- Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
- Gabrielle Union on Knowledge
- Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.
- Lauren Myracle on Knowledge
- Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
- William James on Knowledge
- Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.
- Shia LaBeouf on Knowledge
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon on Knowledge
- Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
- Hermann Hesse on Knowledge
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson on Knowledge
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Calvin Coolidge on Knowledge
- Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
- Samuel Smiles on Knowledge
- Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
- Khalil Gibran on Knowledge
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