3 December 2020 John Polkinghorne I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe.
3 December 2020 John Adams Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
3 December 2020 Dennis Potter The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
3 December 2020 Phillip E. Johnson The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
3 December 2020 Zooey Deschanel I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
3 December 2020 Jean Piaget Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
3 December 2020 William Glasser We don’t focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
3 December 2020 Dan Farmer Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
3 December 2020 Isaac Asimov If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
3 December 2020 Oliver Joseph Lodge The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
3 December 2020 Stephen Ambrose The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
3 December 2020 Alban Berg Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
3 December 2020 Franz Grillparzer Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
3 December 2020 Big Boi I’m always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that’s gonna be useful.
3 December 2020 Andrew Coyle Bradley Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
3 December 2020 Brit Marling As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there’s also something about it that every time you really feel like you’re doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you’re capable of it.
3 December 2020 Harold Bloom We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
3 December 2020 Milton Friedman Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Wales I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.
3 December 2020 Louis Aragon Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
3 December 2020 Princess Diana Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
