975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.” — Geoff Hoon

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“The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.” — Italo Calvino

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“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.” — Jeremy Collier

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“The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.” — Gerard De Nerval

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“Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.” — James M. Baldwin

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“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.” — Richard Cecil

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“We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.” — Matt Blunt

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“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.” — James M. Baldwin

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“Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.” — Imre Lakatos

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“Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.” — Aly Khan

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“The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.” — Jane Roberts

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“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.” — Nicholas Brendon

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“The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.” — John Jewel

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“The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.” — John George Nicolay

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“Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.” — John Jewel

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“With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.” — Sonny Bono

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“I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.” — Dusty Baker

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“There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.” — Van Wyck Brooks

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“Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.” — Caitlin Rose

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“Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.” — Mike DeWine

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“He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.” — Henry Villard

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“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.” — Lucy Stone

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“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?” — Louis Aragon

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“Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.” — Linda Lavin

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“It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.” — Chris Cleave

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