3 December 2020 Peter Drucker Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
3 December 2020 Richard Cobden For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
3 December 2020 Emma Bonino The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
3 December 2020 Gary Bauer 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.
3 December 2020 Friedrich Schiller Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
3 December 2020 Robert Scheer 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.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
3 December 2020 John Millington Synge The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
3 December 2020 Roger Bacon For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
3 December 2020 Jesse James Garrett Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
3 December 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people’s only source of knowledge about the world.
3 December 2020 Peter Garrett 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.
3 December 2020 David Deutsch 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.
3 December 2020 Ernst Mach 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.
3 December 2020 Yoshihiko Noda 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
3 December 2020 Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.
3 December 2020 David Icke In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
3 December 2020 Wendell Phillips Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
3 December 2020 Carol Bellamy 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.
3 December 2020 Mary Richards Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
3 December 2020 Elbert Hubbard The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
3 December 2020 Sigmar Gabriel 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.
3 December 2020 William Bligh 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.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
3 December 2020 Paul Watzlawick Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an ‘objective’ ontological reality.
3 December 2020 Eric Hoffer We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.