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3 December 2020 Jean Piaget

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

3 December 2020 Carlos Castenada

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

3 December 2020 Ethel Watts Mumford

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

3 December 2020 William Holden

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn’t want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

3 December 2020 Arthur E. Waite

Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.

3 December 2020 Daniel D. Palmer

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

3 December 2020 Herschel Walker

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

3 December 2020 Meister Eckhart

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Carson

You don’t have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn’t mean you won’t fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

3 December 2020 Enrico Fermi

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

3 December 2020 Lao-Tzu

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

3 December 2020 Eddie Van Halen

‘For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge’ took a year to record that’s why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. ‘Balance,’ on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

3 December 2020 Laurence Sterne

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

3 December 2020 Anne Wilson Schaef

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

3 December 2020 Timothy Geithner

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

3 December 2020 F. H. Bradley

Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

3 December 2020 Cathy Freeman

I feel like I’ve reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I’ve been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I’ve been, and beyond it.

3 December 2020 John Jewel

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

3 December 2020 Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

3 December 2020 Terry Pratchett

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

3 December 2020 Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

3 December 2020 Hippocrates

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

3 December 2020 Ella Maillart

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.

3 December 2020 Scott Turow

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

3 December 2020 John Archibald Wheeler

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

3 December 2020 Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own.

3 December 2020 Miroslav Vitous

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

3 December 2020 Harrison Salisbury

Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

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