975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory.” — Joshua Foer

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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” — Mao Zedong

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“We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.” — Mira Nair

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“Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.” — Roy Romer

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“It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.” — David Krumholtz

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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” — David Ben-Gurion

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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.” — William Hurt

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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.” — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” — David Ben-Gurion

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“The President regards the Japanese as a brave people but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.” — Townsend Harris

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“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.” — Kurt Russell

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.” — Hu Shih

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“I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.” — Fannie Farmer

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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” — Clifford Stoll

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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” — Robert Anthony

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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” — Kofi Annan

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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” — William Ralph Inge

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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?” — Maria Montessori

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“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.” — Horace

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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” — William S. Burroughs

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