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Roger Bacon on knowledge
Author: Roger Bacon“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.” -Roger Bacon
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Brad Sherman on knowledge
Author: Brad Sherman“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” -Brad Sherman
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Humphry Davy on knowledge
Author: Humphry Davy“In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?” -Humphry Davy
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Chris Cleave on knowledge
Author: Chris Cleave“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…
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Van Wyck Brooks on knowledge
Author: Van Wyck Brooks“There is no stopping the world’s tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.” -Van Wyck Brooks
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Sidney Hook on knowledge
Author: Sidney Hook“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.” -Sidney Hook
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Mike DeWine on knowledge
Author: Mike DeWine“Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there’s a little inequity there about knowledge.” -Mike DeWine
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Lucy Stone on knowledge
Author: Lucy Stone“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.” -Lucy Stone
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Linda Lavin on knowledge
Author: Linda Lavin“Making a film of a work you’ve played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you’ve worked out the behavior and life of a character.” -Linda Lavin
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Caitlin Rose on knowledge
Author: Caitlin Rose“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.” -Caitlin Rose
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Louis Aragon on knowledge
Author: Louis Aragon“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?” -Louis Aragon
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Henry Villard on knowledge
Author: Henry Villard“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.” -Henry Villard
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John Jewel on knowledge
Author: John Jewel“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.” -John Jewel
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Imre Lakatos on knowledge
Author: Imre Lakatos“Einstein’s results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.” -Imre Lakatos
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James M. Baldwin on knowledge
Author: James M. Baldwin“All along we find that social life – religion, politics, art – reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.” -James M. Baldwin
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Geoff Hoon on knowledge
Author: Geoff Hoon“I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That’s what happens in all interviews.” -Geoff Hoon
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Richard Cecil on knowledge
Author: Richard Cecil“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” -Richard Cecil
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Matt Blunt on knowledge
Author: Matt Blunt“We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.” -Matt Blunt
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John George Nicolay on knowledge
Author: John George Nicolay“The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.” -John George Nicolay
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Natalia Makarova on knowledge
Author: Natalia Makarova“I don’t keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.” -Natalia Makarova
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Johnny Isakson on knowledge
Author: Johnny Isakson“Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.” -Johnny Isakson
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Gerard De Nerval on knowledge
Author: Gerard De Nerval“The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.” -Gerard De Nerval
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Sonny Bono on knowledge
Author: Sonny Bono“With all due respect to lawyers, it’s wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.” -Sonny Bono
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Nicholas Brendon on knowledge
Author: Nicholas Brendon“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.” -Nicholas Brendon
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Ann Druyan on knowledge
Author: Ann Druyan“My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.” -Ann Druyan