Louis Nizer Quotes

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Wife

• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Important
  • Education
  • Know

• Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Together
  • Knowledge
  • Justice

• I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Ability
  • Greatest
  • Mental

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Feelings
  • Ability
  • Distance

• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Character
  • Energy
  • Knowledge

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Truth

• I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Interested

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Celebrity

• Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • May
  • You

• When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Time
  • Education
  • Saying

• I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

  

  G-Eazy
  • School
  • Money
  • Education

• I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
  • Value
  • Confidence
  • Sex

• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • I Believe

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• Nobody has milked one performance better than me – and I'm damned proud of it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Proud
  • Better
  • Performance

• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • American
  • Design
  • Competition

• That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Art
  • Crave
  • End Of The Day

• Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Knowledge
  • Education
  • Ability