975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.” — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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“It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.” — Michael Nesmith

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“That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.” — Willie Mays

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“The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.” — Christopher Dawson

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“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.” — Chaim Potok

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“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.” — Frances Wright

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“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.” — Russell Simmons

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“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.” — John Boyd Orr

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“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.” — James Beattie

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“I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.” — Shannon Miller

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“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.” — Duane G. Carey

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“It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.” — Ayumi Hamasaki

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“No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.” — Lord Mountbatten

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“I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.” — Thomas Malthus

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“It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.” — Ed Markey

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“If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.” — Sigmar Gabriel

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“If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.” — Fran Drescher

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“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.” — Frederick Sanger

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“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” — Enrico Fermi

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“If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.” — Matthew Simpson

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“The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.” — Seymour Papert

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“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.” — Betty Hill

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“This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.” — Timothy Geithner

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“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.” — Franz Grillparzer

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“Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.” — James Northcote

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