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3 December 2020 Jon Kyl

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help – that they will never be abandoned.

3 December 2020 Lillian Smith

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

3 December 2020 Garrett Hardin

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

3 December 2020 Lauren Myracle

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don’t turn into that grown-up who they won’t come to.

3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

3 December 2020 Katharine Graham

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

3 December 2020 Phyllis McGinley

Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

3 December 2020 Gene Wolfe

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.

3 December 2020 Kong Fu Zi

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

3 December 2020 Brian Eno

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

3 December 2020 David Amram

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

3 December 2020 Wilhelm Dilthey

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society’s resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

3 December 2020 John Buchanan Robinson

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

3 December 2020 Thomas Bulfinch

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

3 December 2020 John Redwood

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

3 December 2020 David Amram

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

3 December 2020 David Bohm

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

3 December 2020 Guy Clark

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

3 December 2020 Sally Ride

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal

I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.

3 December 2020 Steve Kanaly

I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there’s a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

3 December 2020 Socrates

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

3 December 2020 Mike DeWine

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there’s a little inequity there about knowledge.

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