There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.
~By Bob Kerrey ~
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
~By Alexander the Great ~
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
~By George Boole ~
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
~By Elie Wiesel ~
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Zeal will do more than knowledge.
~By William Hazlitt ~
All knowledge is ambiguous.
~By J. S. Habgood ~
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 ~
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 ~
No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.
~By Lord Mountbatten ~
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind.
~By John Kluge ~
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
~By Jane Roberts ~
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
~By Rocco DiSpirito ~
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
~By James Loeb ~
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
~By Frank Herbert ~
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
~By Claude Bernard ~
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
~By Dolley Madison ~
Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.
~By William Penn ~
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
~By Jim McKay ~
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 ~
Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
~By Oscar de la Renta ~
Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
~By La Monte Young ~
Pain is the root of knowledge.
~By Simone Veil ~
Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
~By Francis Picabia ~
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
~By Ralph Cudworth ~
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 ~
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
~By Gregor Mendel ~
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
~By Jean Stafford ~
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
Doubt grows with knowledge.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
~By Herbert Simon ~
As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
~By John Jewel ~
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~By Alex Grey ~
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
~By Frances Wright ~
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
~By Steven Brust ~
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
~By Dennis Potter ~
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
~By Voltaire ~
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
~By Clifford Stoll ~
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
~By Helen Fielding ~
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
~By Sophocles ~
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
~By Michael Polanyi ~
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 ~
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
~By Carlos Castaneda ~
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
~By Spalding Gray ~
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
~By Will Durant ~
The only ways of enquiry that lead to knowledge... the one way assuming that being is and that it is impossible for it not to be, is the trustworthy path, for truth attends it.
~By Parmedides ~
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
~By Brigham Young ~
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
~By David Cronenberg ~
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
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 fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
~By Sydney J. Harris ~
What is research but a blind date with knowledge?
~By Will Harvey ~
Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
~By Anne Rice ~
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 ~
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
The invisible dilemma is that men face the very real problem that they don't feel comfortable bringing these issues up and they tend not to be acknowledged at work.
~By James Levine ~
We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.
~By Lou Harrison ~
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
~By Ethel Watts Mumford ~
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
~By Charles Dudley Warner ~
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.
~By Thomas Arnold ~
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
~By John Kenneth Galbraith ~
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
~By P. G. Wodehouse ~
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
~By Karl Popper ~
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
~By Leo Buscaglia ~
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
~By William Blake ~
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
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 ~
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.
~By Dwight Yoakam ~
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
~By Ferdinand Foch ~
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
~By Albert Camus ~
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
~By Origen ~
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.
~By Frank Carlucci ~
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