3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
3 December 2020 Frederick Sanger I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
3 December 2020 David Soul To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.
3 December 2020 Mao Zedong If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
3 December 2020 Robert Mugabe True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
3 December 2020 Chris Morris You can only maintain your interest if you’re travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales I think it’s a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
3 December 2020 Van Wyck Brooks People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
3 December 2020 Marcus Garvey A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
3 December 2020 Imre Lakatos Einstein’s results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
3 December 2020 Friedrich August von Hayek To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
3 December 2020 Moses Hadas The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
3 December 2020 William James Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
3 December 2020 Irving Howe The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
3 December 2020 Albert Szent-Gyorgyi This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
3 December 2020 Thomas Malthus I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
3 December 2020 Giacomo Casanova I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
3 December 2020 Jacques Lacan The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
3 December 2020 Willie Mays That’s how easy baseball was for me. I’m not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
3 December 2020 John Boyd Orr Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
3 December 2020 Wislawa Szymborska Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
