975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.” — Albert J. Nock

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“The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.” — John Redwood

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“That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.” — Kenneth Scott Latourette

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“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.” — Albrecht Durer

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“For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.” — Richard Cobden

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“I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.” — Alonzo Mourning

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“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.” — Wilbur Wright

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“When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.” — John Cameron

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“To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.” — David Soul

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“I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.” — Harold Brodkey

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“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.” — Jane Porter

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“A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.” — Richard Leakey

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“As this body of knowledge has evolved, a much more critical job for researchers and scientists has evolved into explaining and educating policy makers and the public to the risks of global warming and the possible consequences of action or of no action.” — John Olver

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“The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.” — Edward Tufte

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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.” — John Cheever

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“I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.” — Chris Tucker

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“In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.” — Gertrude Jekyll

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“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.” — Mickey Spillane

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“Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.” — Polykarp Kusch

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“I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.” — Polykarp Kusch

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“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.” — George Boole

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“Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.” — David Amram

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“Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.” — David Amram

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“The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.” — Daniel Bell

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“Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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