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The conviction that everything that happens on earth must be comprehensible to man can lead to interpreting history by commonplaces.
First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.
Alot of my inspiration comes from people that you don't see on TV like my mum and my grandma. There's so much history and knowledge.
One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
My father's family were Italian ice cream men, and the knowledge was passed on, so I ran an ice cream van while I was dating my wife.
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
Understanding others is knowledge, Understanding oneself is enlightenment; Conquering others is power, Conquering oneself is strength.
The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.
Forsythia is pure joy. There is not an ounce, not a glimmer of sadness or even knowledge in forsythia. Pure, undiluted, untouched joy.
You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.
It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
Knowledge is dangerous when you're a person of colour. It makes you a powerful individual, and that's what 'Stay Dangerous' represents.
What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.
There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.