975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.” — Natalia Makarova

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“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.” — Pierre Curie

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“The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.” — Virchand Gandhi

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“For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.” — Jacqueline Emerson

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“These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.” — Cedric Richmond

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“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.” — Edith Hamilton

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“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.” — Brad Sherman

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“Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.” — David K. Shipler

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“According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.” — Virchand Gandhi

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“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.” — Roger Bacon

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“In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?” — Humphry Davy

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“Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.” — James H. Douglas

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“Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.” — Vijay Singh

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“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.” — Mary Richards

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“Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.” — Harrison Salisbury

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“I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.” — Daniel Akaka

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“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.” — Abraham Cowley

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“There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.” — Bob Kerrey

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“My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.” — George Andrew Olah

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“I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.” — Laurent Lamothe

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“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.” — Stanley Fish

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“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.” — Michael Polanyi

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“I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.” — Spalding Gray

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“The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.” — Stanislav Grof

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“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” — Wangari Maathai

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