3 December 2020 Daniel J. Boorstin Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
3 December 2020 Thomas Bulfinch If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.
3 December 2020 Thomas Aquinas We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
3 December 2020 George Gurdjieff A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
3 December 2020 Charles Babbage Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton’s, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
3 December 2020 Jack LaLanne We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.
3 December 2020 Bela Lugosi A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
3 December 2020 G. I. Gurdjieff Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
3 December 2020 William Ellery Channing It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind’s dignity.
3 December 2020 Roy Moore The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
3 December 2020 James Meade The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
3 December 2020 Shannon Miller I’m not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.
3 December 2020 Azar Nafisi Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
3 December 2020 Peter Singer Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
3 December 2020 Thomas Huxley The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
3 December 2020 Herodotus Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
3 December 2020 Stanley Fish Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.
3 December 2020 Oliver Goldsmith As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
3 December 2020 Jennie Garth I’m one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.
3 December 2020 Joseph Franklin Rutherford The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
3 December 2020 Geoff Hoon I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That’s what happens in all interviews.
3 December 2020 Juvenal All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
3 December 2020 Walter Lippmann There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
3 December 2020 Jean Piaget In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
3 December 2020 Jane Campion My musical knowledge is so bad it’s embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
