3 December 2020 John Tyndall Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
3 December 2020 Seth Lloyd Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
3 December 2020 Max Planck 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.
3 December 2020 Franklin D. Roosevelt No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
3 December 2020 Daisaku Ikeda Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan’s existence as a country.
3 December 2020 Havelock Ellis Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
3 December 2020 Petra Nemcova 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.
3 December 2020 Terry Eagleton 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.
3 December 2020 Sidney Hook Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
3 December 2020 Freda Adler 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Seagal 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.
3 December 2020 Michael Gove The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.
3 December 2020 James Lafferty It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
3 December 2020 Niklaus Wirth 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.
3 December 2020 Walter Gilbert I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
3 December 2020 Seth Godin The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
3 December 2020 Zhuangzi Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
3 December 2020 Polykarp Kusch 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.
3 December 2020 Matt Blunt 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.
3 December 2020 Karen Armstrong Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
3 December 2020 Giambattista Valli 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.
