975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.” — John Cale

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“I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.” — Eddie Redmayne

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“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.” — Kurt Loder

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“All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision.” — Maria Monk

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“There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.” — Shakti Gawain

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“Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.” — Seth Lloyd

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“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.” — Corliss Lamont

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“It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.” — Miranda Richardson

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“Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.” — Paul Watzlawick

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“Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.” — Avicenna

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“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.” — Wendell Phillips

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“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.” — Josiah Royce

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“I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.” — Rex Hunt

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“Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.” — David Hare

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“A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.” — Joseph Story

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“I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.” — Peter Garrett

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“It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.” — James Lafferty

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“Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.” — Arthur Machen

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“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.” — Roland Barthes

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“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.” — Albert J. Nock

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“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.” — John Shelton Reed

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“I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.” — Karl Jaspers

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“Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.” — Albert J. Nock

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“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.” — Albert J. Nock

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“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.” — Albert J. Nock

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