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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“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.” -Tom Jenkinson
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“Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.” -James Northcote
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“If we don’t empower ourselves with knowledge, then we’re gonna be led down a garden path.” -Fran Drescher
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“Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don’t turn into that grown-up who they won’t come to.” -Lauren Myracle
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“If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can’t expect to have our cake and eat it too.” -Sigmar Gabriel
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“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.” -Peter Garrett
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“Even if you’re improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.” -John Cale
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“If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.” -Peter Fonda
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“I’m always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that’s gonna be useful.” -Big Boi
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“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.” -Roy Moore
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“I’m quite ignorant about fashion and I’m colourblind, so it’s all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.” -Eddie Redmayne
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“And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.” -Carol Bellamy
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“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There’s just more going on. It’s an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.” -Kurt Loder
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“It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation’s leading causes of preventable death, but it’s less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.” -Ed Markey
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“No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.” -Lord Mountbatten
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“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” -Enrico Fermi
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“One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.” -Jean-Francois Lyotard
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“Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don’t talk about it intelligently.” -Bill James
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“If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.” -Matthew Simpson
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“Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.” -Niklaus Wirth
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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” -Seymour Papert
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“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn’t have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.” -Petra Nemcova
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“I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.” -Cobi Jones
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“This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.” -Timothy Geithner
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“I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.” -Thomas Malthus
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“The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.” -Seth Godin
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“As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what’s happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.” -Laurel Clark
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“And I’m walking along and we’re laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.” -Betty Hill
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“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.” -Tom Shadyac
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“The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.” -Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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“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.” -Jim Ryun
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“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.” -Jean Piaget
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“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.” -Frances Wright
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“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.” -Willie Mays
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“I’ve done a lot of things in a business where you’re lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I’ll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.” -Felix Baumgartner
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“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.” -Christopher Dawson
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“Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it’s irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.” -Conrad Bums
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“And, that’s what I truly believe that we’re doing when we’re advancing scientific knowledge is we’re someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.” -Duane G. Carey
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“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.” -Russell Simmons
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“Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.” -John Boyd Orr
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“All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they’ve been artists.” -Ruben Studdard
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“Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.” -Andrew Coyle Bradley
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“It’s hard to decide how to match words to music. It’s not like it’s twice the work. It’s always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I’m looking for. I’m not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.” -Ayumi Hamasaki
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“I’m not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.” -Shannon Miller
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“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.” -Emma Bonino
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“You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?” -Zebulon Pike
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“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.” -B. H. Liddell Hart
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“Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.” -Paul Davies
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“That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.” -Maria Mitchell
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“The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.” -Michael Gove
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“I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.” -Steve Sabol
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“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.” -Leland Stanford
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“I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.” -Rocco DiSpirito
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“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.” -Alban Berg
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“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.” -Meghan O’Rourke
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“After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.” -James Prescott Joule
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“One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help – that they will never be abandoned.” -Jon Kyl
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“My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo ‘Mario Bros.’” -Gina Carano
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“Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world.” -Ryszard Kapuscinski
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“The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.” -Townsend Harris
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“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.” -Auguste Comte
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“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.” -Michael Nesmith
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“I’m one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.” -Jennie Garth
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“As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there’s also something about it that every time you really feel like you’re doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you’re capable of it.” -Brit Marling
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“Always, through my whole life, I’ve had a thirst for knowledge.” -Emmitt Smith
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“Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” -David Ben-Gurion
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“For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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“If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.” -John Acton
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“The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.” -Robert Delaunay
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“In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you’re a theater actor it’s very difficult to make a living. But it’s also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.” -Gael Garcia Bernal
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“More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.” -Charles Bowen
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“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.” -William John Wills
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“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.” -Karl Jaspers
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“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.” -Charles Dudley Warner
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“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn’t in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.” -Chuck Yeager
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“I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.” -Laurence Olivier
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“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.” -John Sergeant Wise
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“I mean, it’s the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.” -Joe Mantegna
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“I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn’t.” -Busy Philipps
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“I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could – with 100 per cent certainty – know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.” -Hans Blix
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“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.” -Polykarp Kusch
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“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.” -Chaim Potok
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“We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.” -Clifford Geertz
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“We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there’s humanity everywhere, and that’s what I’m trying to do.” -Mira Nair
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“When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to…
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“Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.” -Claude Bernard
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“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.” -Steve Wozniak
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“An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.” -John McCarthy
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“Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.” -Luther Burbank
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“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.” -Kenneth L. Pike
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“Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.” -John Charles Polanyi
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“Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.” -Charles de Secondat
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“I feel like I’ve reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I’ve been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I’ve been, and beyond it.” -Cathy Freeman
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“I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.” -Judy Holliday
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“I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.” -Ezra Miller
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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.” -Herbie Hancock
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“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.” -Freda Adler
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“Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.” -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.” -Henning Mankell
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“His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.” -William Shenstone
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“If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.” -Kofi Annan
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“I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.” -Ella Maillart
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“The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.” -Edward Thorndike
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“Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.” -Huston Smith
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“I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?” -Tom Clancy
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“Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.” -Herbert Simon
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“Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.” -Kjell Magne Bondevik
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“The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.” -Gary Bauer
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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.” -William Hurt
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.” -Terry Goodkind
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“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” -Frank Herbert
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“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!” -Hal Sparks
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“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.” -Michelle Rodriguez
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“The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers.” -Alan Cumming
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“It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.” -Paul Nurse
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“Fine art is knowledge made visible.” -Gustave Courbet
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“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.” -David Cronenberg
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“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.” -Thomas Arnold
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“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.” -Tadao Ando
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“To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.” -Don Rickles
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“Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.” -George Henry Lewes
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“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is ‘The Book of British Birds,’ and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.” -Terry Eagleton
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“We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.” -Mary Astell
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“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.” -F. H. Bradley
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“There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.” -Celine Dion
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“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.” -Spalding Gray
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“The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.” -Enya
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“The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.” -John Millington Synge
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“If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.” -Felix Adler
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“A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical.” -Conrad Black
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“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.” -Stephen Gardiner
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“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.” -Thomas Bulfinch
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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” -Walter Lang
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“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.” -Carroll Quigley
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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” -Stephen Ambrose
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“I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.” -Emily Blunt
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“Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people’s knowledge of those characters.” -Derek Jacobi
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“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” -John Cheever
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“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.” -Thomas Reid
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“No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.” -Ellsworth Huntington
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“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.” -Ethel Watts Mumford
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“With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.” -Orville Wright
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“Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life – involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.” -Talcott Parsons
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“In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.” -Nathaniel Branden
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“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.” -Hu Shih
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“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.” -Georges Bernanos
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“The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“It’s much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they’re ill-equipped to solve their problems.” -John Hawkes
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“Security… it’s simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you’re willing to deal with whatever happens.” -Harry Browne
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“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.” -Henry Bolingbroke
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“The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.” -Henri Poincare
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“There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.” -Pearl Bailey
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“You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.” -Talib Kweli
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“You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you – that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have – talent, contacts, knowledge – and do something different.” -Cat Deeley
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“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.” -Thomas B. Macaulay
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“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.” -Jeremy Bentham
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“The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.” -Ralph Ellison
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“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” -Thomas Berger
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“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.” -Brigham Young
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“So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.” -Tippi Hedren
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“You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That’s the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans’. We don’t simply skim the elite.” -Donna Shalala
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“The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.” -Steven Seagal
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“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.” -Stanislav Grof
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“Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.” -Azar Nafisi
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“My musical knowledge is so bad it’s embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.” -Jane Campion
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“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.” -Roy H. Williams
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“But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.” -Thomas a Kempis
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“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.” -Robert Staughton Lynd
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“I think it’s a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.” -Jimmy Wales
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“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.” -Max Planck
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“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” -Brooks Atkinson
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“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!” -Jacques Lacan
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“Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.” -Richard King
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“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.” -Matthew Arnold
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