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3 December 2020 Ralph Thomas Walker

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.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

3 December 2020 Miguel de Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

3 December 2020 Cheech Marin

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.

3 December 2020 Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

3 December 2020 Anne Sullivan Macy

We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.

3 December 2020 John Bates Clark

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.

3 December 2020 Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

3 December 2020 Virchand Gandhi

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.

3 December 2020 Francis Picabia

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

3 December 2020 Sonny Perdue

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

3 December 2020 Edward Thorndike

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.

3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans – but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don’t have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

3 December 2020 Robert Delaunay

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.

3 December 2020 Steve Sabol

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Juno Temple

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!

3 December 2020 Arthur Rimbaud

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Warnock

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.

3 December 2020 Alexis Carrel

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

3 December 2020 Ellie Goulding

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.

3 December 2020 Ike Skelton

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.

3 December 2020 John Locke

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

3 December 2020 Herbert Spencer

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

3 December 2020 Charlie Sheen

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

3 December 2020 Henry Bolingbroke

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.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Sergeant Wise

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.

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