We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.
~By Roald Amundsen ~
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
~By Franz Kafka ~
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.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
My knowledge of the state of President Roosevelt's health was derived entirely from conversations, from newspaper articles and from photographs.
~By David Bruce ~
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
~By Kjell Magne Bondevik ~
But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected.
~By Daniel Yergin ~
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
~By Louis Aragon ~
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
~By Susanne Langer ~
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
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?
~By Tom Clancy ~
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Money is not a fund of knowledge.
~By John Kluge ~
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
~By F. H. Bradley ~
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
~By Charles Babbage ~
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
~By Lao Tzu ~
For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
~By Robert Scheer ~
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
~By Freda Adler ~
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
~By Edith Hamilton ~
To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
~By Charles T. Russell ~
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.
~By Richard Leakey ~
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
~By Zhuangzi ~
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
~By Carl Sagan ~
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~By Alfred Lord Tennyson ~
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
~By Ike Skelton ~
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
~By James M. Baldwin ~
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~By Horace Mann ~
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
~By James Earl Jones ~
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~By Bayard Rustin ~
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
~By Lord Acton ~
The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
~By Edward Levi ~
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
~By John Jewel ~
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
~By Albert Einstein ~
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
~By William Glasser ~
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
~By Jean Piaget ~
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
~By Lady Bird Johnson ~
What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.
~By Bryan Singer ~
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
~By Edward Tufte ~
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
~By Daniel Akaka ~
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
~By Daniel Bell ~
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
~By Barbara McClintock ~
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
~By DeWitt Clinton ~
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.
~By Nick Cassavetes ~
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
~By John Charles Polanyi ~
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
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.
~By Paul Watzlawick ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~By Albert Einstein ~
When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
~By Abdullah Ibrahim ~
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
~By Henry Miller ~
Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
~By Mary Astell ~
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
~By Thomas Bulfinch ~
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
~By Irving Howe ~
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
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.
~By Isaac Asimov ~
On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
~By Peter Drucker ~
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
~By Jean-Francois Lyotard ~
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
~By Lawrence Hargrave ~
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
~By Miguel de Cervantes ~
To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.
~By Eleonora Duse ~
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
~By Samuel Butler ~
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
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.
~By Henry James Sumner Maine ~
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
~By Tacitus ~
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
~By Sam Houston ~
I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
~By Daniel D. Palmer ~
Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.
~By Estelle Morris ~
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.
~By David Krumholtz ~
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
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