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3 December 2020 Nicolaus Copernicus

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

3 December 2020 Steven Hatfill

I don’t know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.

3 December 2020 Alan Dundes

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

3 December 2020 Alfred North Whitehead

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

3 December 2020 Leo Buscaglia

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

3 December 2020 Henry Mayhew

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

3 December 2020 Henning Mankell

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

3 December 2020 Wilhelm Dilthey

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

3 December 2020 Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

3 December 2020 Betty Hill

And I’m walking along and we’re laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.

3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.

3 December 2020 Ang Lee

I don’t have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I’m not that kind of person.

3 December 2020 Simone Weil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley

There’s only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

3 December 2020 Chanakya

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

3 December 2020 Wilhelm Reich

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

3 December 2020 Vera Farmiga

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

3 December 2020 Chanakya

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

3 December 2020 John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

3 December 2020 Augustus Hare

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

3 December 2020 Irving Babbitt

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.

3 December 2020 Philip K. Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

3 December 2020 Celine Dion

There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.

3 December 2020 David Hume

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

3 December 2020 Tom Shadyac

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

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