And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right. ~By Carol Kane ~
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ~By Henry Ford ~
The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. ~By James Allen ~
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports. ~By Jim McKay ~
Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. ~By Mary Richards ~
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ~By William Davenant ~
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics. ~By George Reisman ~
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms. ~By Christopher Dawson ~
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. ~By Euripides ~
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. ~By George Boole ~
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. ~By Asa Gray ~
The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ~By Shirin Ebadi ~
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. ~By Alain Rene Le Sage ~
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~By Carl Jung ~
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 ~
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. ~By Michael Nesmith ~
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. ~By Liberty Hyde Bailey ~
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. ~By John Calvin ~
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. ~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ~By Albert Camus ~
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ~By Frederick Soddy ~
Knowledge is never too dear. ~By Francis Walsingham ~
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. ~By Robert Delaunay ~
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 ~
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. ~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge. ~By Jeremy Taylor ~
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ~By John Acton ~
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. ~By Marcel Proust ~
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. ~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. ~By George Eliot ~
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that's when cuisine is truly exciting. ~By Charlie Trotter ~
We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do. ~By James Levine ~
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. ~By Havelock Ellis ~
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. ~By Vine Deloria, Jr. ~
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow. ~By Tom Jenkinson ~
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. ~By William Penn ~
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. ~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. ~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. ~By Ernest Holmes ~
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. ~By Juan Cole ~
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you. ~By Princess Diana ~
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. ~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. ~By William S. Burroughs ~
But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. ~By Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ~By Khalil Gibran ~
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. ~By Albert J. Nock ~
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. ~By Immanuel Kant ~
In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. ~By Janet Jackson ~
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. ~By Ramakrishna ~
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. ~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. ~By Suzanne Fields ~
I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer. ~By Jessica Simpson ~
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare. ~By Thomas Bowdler ~
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. ~By Mickey Spillane ~
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true. ~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. ~By Oswald Chambers ~
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ~By Frederick Buechner ~
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. ~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
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. ~By Michael Ramsey ~
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year. ~By Walt Disney ~
The presence of American troops is fueling the insurgency in Iraq, as acknowledged by General Casey and numerous other experts, and is helping terrorist recruiters build their numbers across the globe. ~By John Conyers ~
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. ~By Khalil Gibran ~
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. ~By Albert Camus ~
If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path. ~By Fran Drescher ~
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher. ~By Jean Piaget ~
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. ~By Ernest Holmes ~
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ~By William Glasser ~
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. ~By Virginia Gildersleeve ~
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. ~By Tobey Maguire ~
The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. ~By James Meade ~
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. ~By Erica Jong ~
The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Our willingness to acknowledge that we only see half the picture creates the conditions that make us more attractive to others. The more sincerely we acknowledge our need for their different insights and perspectives, the more they will be magnetized to join us. ~By Margaret J. Wheatley ~
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. ~By Henry Mayhew ~
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 most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian. ~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
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 ~
Chess is not only knowledge and logic. ~By Alexander Alekhine ~
Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce. ~By Leland Stanford ~
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 ~
I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out. ~By Peter Garrett ~
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. ~By Joseph Story ~
Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children. ~By Steve Wozniak ~
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. ~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Every person seems to acknowledge his greatness. He blends together the profound politician with the scholar. ~By William Pierce ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ~By Plato ~
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. ~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. ~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. ~By James Beattie ~
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. ~By Plato ~
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? ~By Albert Claude ~
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. ~By Henry Bolingbroke ~
We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. ~By Mortimer Adler ~
In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. ~By William J. Clinton ~
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. ~By Stanislav Grof ~
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily. ~By Harry Browne ~
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 ~
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