knowledge
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘knowledge’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” -Anton Chekhov
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“Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.” -Harrison Salisbury
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“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.” -Stanley Fish
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“Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.” -James H. Douglas
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“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.” -Jeremy Collier
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“Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn’t just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.” -Giambattista Valli
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“I think it’s wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.” -Rex Hunt
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“For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I’ve been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can’t write past…
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“The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.” -Virchand Gandhi
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“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy’s great disinfectant and cure.” -David K. Shipler
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“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.” -James Beattie
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“These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in…
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“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.” -Mary Richards
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“Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player – more than listening to a teacher – is the best way to get it.” -Vijay Singh
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“There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.” -Bob Kerrey
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“I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.” -Laurent Lamothe
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“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.” -Daniel Akaka
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“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…
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“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?” -Will Harvey
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“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.” -Carl Clinton Van Doren
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“My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.” -George Andrew Olah
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“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.” -Abraham Cowley
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“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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“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.” -John Jewel
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“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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“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?” -Louis Aragon
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“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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“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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“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.” -Lucy Stone
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“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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“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.” -Sidney Hook
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“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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“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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“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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“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” -Brad Sherman
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“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.” -Roger Bacon
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“You can only maintain your interest if you’re travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.” -Chris Morris
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“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.” -Edith Hamilton
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“Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.” -Leonard Orr
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“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature’s secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.” -Pierre Curie
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“The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.” -William Bligh
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“It’s hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier’s death.” -Christopher Shays
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“We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it.” -Paul Broun
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“Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.” -Aly Khan
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“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.” -Italo Calvino
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“Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.” -Scott Turow
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“The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.” -Jane Roberts
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“I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.” -Dusty Baker
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“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
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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I don’t keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.” -Natalia Makarova
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“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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“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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“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” -Richard Cecil
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“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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“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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“It wasn’t a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.” -Marc Davis
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“The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.” -Klaus Fuchs
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“A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.” -Pratibha Patil
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“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.” -Roy Romer
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“If you asked somebody, ‘what do you wish for in life?’ they wouldn’t say ‘happiness.’ I would have answered ‘excitement, knowledge,’ God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not ‘happiness’. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.” -Connie Nielsen
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“Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.” -David Deutsch
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“We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.” -Leon Jouhaux
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“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.” -Abdallah II
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“Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.” -Guy Clark
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“I’d like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.” -Fred Savage
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“I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.” -Isaac Hanson
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“To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don’t have the education.” -Melanie Griffith
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“In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.” -James H. Breasted
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“I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.” -Frederick Sanger
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“The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.” -Oliver Joseph Lodge
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“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.” -Lawrence Hargrave
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“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.” -Henry James Sumner Maine
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“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.” -Carol Kane
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“Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.” -Dan Farmer
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“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.” -Samuel Horsley
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“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one’s education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.” -Fannie Farmer
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“The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.” -Esperanza Spalding
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“That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.” -Jonathan Dimbleby
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“Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.” -Thomas Bulfinch
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“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.” -Irving Howe
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“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.” -Juan Cole
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“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.” -Jean-Francois Lyotard
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“Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.” -William Kirby
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“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” -Lillian Smith
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“The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.” -Toshihiko Fukui
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“If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.” -Leon Spinks
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“Chess is not only knowledge and logic.” -Alexander Alekhine
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“It’s hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what’s going on. That’s why I’m doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.” -Cybill Shepherd
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“I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.” -Joe Wright
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“In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks we now need to support the providers.” -Jose Serrano
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“Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.” -John Bates Clark
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“I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.” -Walter Gilbert
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“Knowledge is never too dear.” -Francis Walsingham
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“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.” -Asa Gray
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“The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.” -Robert D. Kaplan
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“Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.” -William Holden
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“I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.” -Margaret Spellings
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“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.” -Mary Augusta Ward
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“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.” -Frederick Soddy
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“The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what’s happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else – we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.” -Kurt Sutter
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“But, I think it’s great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That’s really fantastic!” -Juno Temple
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“I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.” -Kerry Packer
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“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.” -Michael Ramsey
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“I’m not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.” -Ayumi Hamasaki
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“It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.” -Arto Lindsay
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“As far as knowledge goes I’ve come a long way.” -Jurgen Klinsmann
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“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.” -Steve Kanaly
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“My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to – to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.” -Randy Quaid
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“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that’s a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.” -Cheech Marin
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“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.” -Michael Polanyi
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“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.” -Trofim Lysenko
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“There can be no proof that Blake’s lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.” -John Drinkwater
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“The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.” -John Bright
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“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.” -Susanne Langer
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“We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.” -Rory Bremner
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“The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.” -Franz Boas
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“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?” -Albert Claude
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“Now will I rehearse before you a very ancient Breton Lay. As the tale was told to me, so, in turn, will I tell it over again, to the best of my art and knowledge. Hearken now to my story, its why and its reason.” -Marie de France
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“I don’t know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.” -Steven Hatfill
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“Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.” -John Tyndall
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“Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.” -Francis Picabia
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“The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.” -John Redwood
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“May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.” -Ralph Thomas Walker
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“It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.” -Harriet Martineau
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“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.” -Samuel Wilson
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“They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.” -Miroslav Vitous
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“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” -Wangari Maathai
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“Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.” -Ralph Cudworth
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“Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.” -Abbott L. Lowell
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“One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that’s obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.” -Luc Montagnier
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“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.” -James Meade
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“To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one’s own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.” -Wilhelm Dilthey
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“I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.” -Marvin Minsky
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“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.” -Amy Waldman
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“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.” -Bill Veeck
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“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.” -Abdullah Ibrahim
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“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.” -Ike Skelton
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“The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact – the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.” -Simon Greenleaf
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“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.” -Frank Carlucci
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“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.” -Daniel Bell
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“The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.” -Ernst Mach
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“Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn’t exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.” -John Warnock
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“I think education is one of the greatest tools for most kids not only to expand their book knowledge, but their ability to experience new things – I think it opens more doors than any other experience I can think of.” -Will Estes
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“Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
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“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.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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“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.” -George Boole
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“All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.” -Nils-Axel Morner
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“I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.” -Yoshihiko Noda
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“Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.” -David Amram
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“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.” -Nathan Deal
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“A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It’s often called the culture of the organization.” -Howard Gardner
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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.” -Doris Day
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“No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.” -Anne Sullivan Macy
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“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.” -Origen
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“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.” -Wilhelm Reich
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“I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.” -Alan Dundes
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“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.” -Albert J. Nock
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“It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.” -James Lafferty
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“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.” -Richard Leakey
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“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.” -John Cameron
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“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.” -Gertrude Jekyll
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“The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.” -Edward Tufte
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“I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of great work in the future.” -Chris Tucker
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“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.” -Mickey Spillane
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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” -John Cheever
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“As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.” -John Olver
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“The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.” -Polykarp Kusch
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“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.” -Robert Scheer
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“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.” -Wendell Phillips
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“The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.” -Dennis Potter
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“Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.” -Franz Grillparzer
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“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.” -Charles Hodge
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“I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.” -Zooey Deschanel
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“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.” -Frederick Sanger
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