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3 December 2020 Joel Edgerton

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

3 December 2020 David Herbert Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

3 December 2020 Karl Jaspers

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.

3 December 2020 Laurel Clark

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.

3 December 2020 Frederick Sanger

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

3 December 2020 Francis Walsingham

Knowledge is never too dear.

3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

3 December 2020 Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

3 December 2020 Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

3 December 2020 Busy Philipps

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.

3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

3 December 2020 Derek Jacobi

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.

3 December 2020 Mickey Spillane

If you’re a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he’s good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

3 December 2020 Pearl Bailey

There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

3 December 2020 Tom Clancy

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?

3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.

3 December 2020 David Bailey

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

3 December 2020 Michel de Montaigne

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

3 December 2020 Robert Collier

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

3 December 2020 Ed Markey

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.

3 December 2020 John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

3 December 2020 Herbie Hancock

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can’t practice to attain wisdom.

3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

3 December 2020 Meghan O'Rourke

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

3 December 2020 Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

3 December 2020 Ben Shahn

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

3 December 2020 Emmitt Smith

Always, through my whole life, I’ve had a thirst for knowledge.

3 December 2020 Oswald Chambers

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

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