3 December 2020 Lafcadio Hearn A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
3 December 2020 Stephen Gardiner The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
3 December 2020 Jeremy Taylor It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
3 December 2020 Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
3 December 2020 Edith Hamilton A people’s literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
3 December 2020 Gerard De Nerval The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
3 December 2020 Roland Barthes Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
3 December 2020 Vijay Singh Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player – more than listening to a teacher – is the best way to get it.
3 December 2020 Jonathan Dimbleby That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
3 December 2020 James Thurber The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
3 December 2020 Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
3 December 2020 Kerry Packer I agree completely with my son James when he says ‘Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge’.
3 December 2020 Charles de Secondat Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich So I’d be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I’d let him use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge. We’ll do fine.
3 December 2020 Arto Lindsay It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.
3 December 2020 Edward Tufte The idea of trying to create things that last – forever knowledge – has guided my work for a long time now.
3 December 2020 William Shenstone His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
3 December 2020 Mary Astell We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.
3 December 2020 Leon Jouhaux We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
3 December 2020 Abraham Cowley Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
3 December 2020 Jean-Francois Lyotard Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
3 December 2020 Rex Hunt I think it’s wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Hargrave To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn’t know.
