3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
3 December 2020 Marvin Minsky When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
3 December 2020 George Santayana 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Darwin Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
3 December 2020 Matthew Simpson If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.
3 December 2020 Plato And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy 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.
3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
3 December 2020 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
3 December 2020 Raoul Vaneigem Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
3 December 2020 Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
3 December 2020 Alonzo Mourning I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.
3 December 2020 Talcott Parsons 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.
3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
3 December 2020 Maynard James Keenan If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.
3 December 2020 Will Estes 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.
3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
3 December 2020 Hubert H. Humphrey Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
3 December 2020 Franz Kafka We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
3 December 2020 Thomas Bulfinch 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.
3 December 2020 Orson Scott Card The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.
3 December 2020 Louis Pasteur Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
3 December 2020 B. H. Liddell Hart A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Sam Houston The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
3 December 2020 James H. Douglas Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
