975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” — P. G. Wodehouse

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“The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.” — Franz Boas

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“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.” — Li Ka Shing

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“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.” — J. J. Abrams

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“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.” — Marcel Proust

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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” — Rene Descartes

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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.” — Charles de Secondat

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“And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.” — Carol Kane

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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.” — Robert Quillen

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“Reason is an action of the mind knowledge is a possession of the mind but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.” — Michael Ramsey

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“Science is organized knowledge.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Knowledge is the life of the mind.” — Abu Bakr

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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” — Tobey Maguire

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“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?” — Theodore Bikel

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“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.” — Celine Dion

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“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.” — Ernest Holmes

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“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.” — Jean Piaget

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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” — Ruben Blades

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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” — David Bailey

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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.” — Dolley Madison

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“I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.” — Alan Alda

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“Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.” — Kevin Mitnick

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