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3 December 2020 Walt Disney

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

3 December 2020 Frances Wright

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

3 December 2020 Karel Capek

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

3 December 2020 Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.

3 December 2020 Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

3 December 2020 Henry Mayhew

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

3 December 2020 Miroslav Vitous

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.

3 December 2020 William Penn

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

3 December 2020 Simon Greenleaf

The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact – the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.

3 December 2020 Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

3 December 2020 Frank Carlucci

My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.

3 December 2020 Ralph Cudworth

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

3 December 2020 David Suzuki

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.

3 December 2020 Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

3 December 2020 Toshihiko Fukui

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

3 December 2020 Luther Burbank

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

3 December 2020 Albert Camus

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

3 December 2020 Frances Wright

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

3 December 2020 Ann Druyan

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

3 December 2020 Tom Clancy

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

3 December 2020 Polykarp Kusch

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

3 December 2020 Brooks Atkinson

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

3 December 2020 Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

3 December 2020 Konrad Lorenz

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

3 December 2020 Dolley Madison

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.

3 December 2020 Harriet Martineau

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

3 December 2020 Albert J. Nock

The university’s business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

3 December 2020 Xun Zi

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

3 December 2020 Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

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