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 ~
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
~By Albert Szent Gyorgyi ~
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.
~By Trofim Lysenko ~
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
~By Bob Kane ~
Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
~By Anne Sullivan Macy ~
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
~By Louis Aragon ~
I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.
~By Alfred Schnittke ~
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
~By Luther Burbank ~
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
~By Plato ~
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
~By Italo Calvino ~
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
~By Huston Smith ~
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
~By Carl Clinton Van Doren ~
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
~By Brian Mulroney ~
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
~By Jim Ryun ~
I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
~By Todd Barry ~
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
~By Charles Bowen ~
That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
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 ~
One must know combinations, one must have a true knowledge of food to be in the moment.
~By Charlie Trotter ~
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
~By Jane Roberts ~
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know.
~By Lawrence Kasdan ~
I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them.
~By James Gunn ~
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.
~By Roger Bacon ~
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 ~
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
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 ~
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
~By Jimmy Wales ~
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
~By Henry Villard ~
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 ~
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Play is the beginning of knowledge.
~By George Dorsey ~
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
~By Jean Piaget ~
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 ~
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
~By Peter Lewis Allen ~
To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
~By Anne Heche ~
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 ~
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
~By Herodotus ~
Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.
~By Richard King ~
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
~By George Santayana ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
~By Charles Lederer ~
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
~By Lillian Smith ~
We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
~By Scott Adams ~
I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
~By Kofi Annan ~
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
~By Elizabeth Hardwick ~
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 ~
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.
~By Nathan Deal ~
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
~By Horace Mann ~
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
~By Robert Collier ~
A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
~By Mark Twain ~
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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.
~By Emma Thompson ~
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
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.
~By Willie Mays ~
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
~By Jeremy Taylor ~
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character as gentlemen, there are others who acknowledge no law, human or divine, but the law of Scotland.
~By George Combe ~
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 ~
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
~By James Beattie ~
To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.
~By John Cameron ~
Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft ~
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
~By Josh Billings ~
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
~By Emma Bonino ~
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
~By Antonio Gramsci ~
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
~By Seymour Papert ~
If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
~By Harrison Ford ~
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
~By John Bright ~
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
~By William S. Burroughs ~
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
~By Roger Bacon ~
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
~By John Holt ~
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I've never seen America as being one place, but I think the record industry people I've spoken to - although they will acknowledge that the cities are completely different from each other - I think they still handle it as being one territory.
~By Sean Booth ~
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
~By Howard Crosby ~
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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