3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
3 December 2020 Tom Clancy People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Juan Cole Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
3 December 2020 Karl Popper Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
3 December 2020 Walter Mosley When you deal with a person who’s experiencing dementia, you can see where they’re struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they’re trying to remember.
3 December 2020 Nicki Minaj My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
3 December 2020 Henri Poincare The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
3 December 2020 Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
3 December 2020 Robert Millikan Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
3 December 2020 Kenneth L. Pike This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Jane Porter Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men’s candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
3 December 2020 Fred Savage I’d like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
3 December 2020 Harry Browne Security… it’s simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you’re willing to deal with whatever happens.
3 December 2020 Johnny Isakson Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
3 December 2020 Thomas Reid There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
3 December 2020 Henry Miller Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
3 December 2020 Josiah Royce Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
3 December 2020 Stephen Hawking Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
3 December 2020 Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
3 December 2020 Sonny Bono With all due respect to lawyers, it’s wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.
3 December 2020 George Mikes In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Kozol So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
