975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.” — Tom Jenkinson

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“Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.” — Bill James

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“You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?” — Zebulon Pike

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“If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.” — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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“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.” — Jean-Francois Lyotard

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“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.” — Petra Nemcova

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“Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.” — Niklaus Wirth

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“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.” — Joel Edgerton

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“As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.” — Laurel Clark

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“I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.” — Cobi Jones

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“The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.” — Seth Godin

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“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.” — John Boyd Orr

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“Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.” — Ben Shahn

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“The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.” — Henry Mayhew

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“Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.” — Boris Spassky

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“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.” — Mary McLeod Bethune

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“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.” — Henry Mayhew

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

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“And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.” — Carol Bellamy

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“But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.” — John Buchanan Robinson

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“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.” — Phillip E. Johnson

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“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.” — Harold Bloom

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“There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.” — John Drinkwater

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“When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.” — Joseph Lancaster

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“If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.” — Herschel Walker

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