975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.” — Charles Dudley Warner

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“Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.” — Chuck Yeager

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“Fine art is knowledge made visible.” — Gustave Courbet

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“If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.” — Polykarp Kusch

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“Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.” — Paul Davies

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“One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.” — Jon Kyl

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“The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.” — Roy Moore

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“I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.” — Hans Blix

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“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.” — Meghan O'Rourke

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“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.” — Auguste Comte

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“After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.” — James Prescott Joule

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“I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.” — Busy Philipps

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“That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.” — Maria Mitchell

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“I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.” — Joe Mantegna

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“The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.” — Michael Gove

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“We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.” — Clifford Geertz

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“Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.” — Conrad Bums

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“To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.” — Jim Ryun

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“Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.” — Leland Stanford

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“I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.” — Jennie Garth

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“I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.” — Felix Baumgartner

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“My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'” — Gina Carano

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“Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.” — Ryszard Kapuscinski

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“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.” — B. H. Liddell Hart

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“In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.” — Jean Piaget

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