Knowledge Quotes
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
Rachel Kushner
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When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Ralph Thomas Walker
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
Edmund Phelps
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There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.
Elizabeth Moon
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
Ike Skelton
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
La Monte Young
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
Adam D'Angelo
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Freedom, knowledge, truth are values to be appreciated together by living them.
M. N. Roy
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speaking in unknown languages, showing a disproportionate physical strength beyond one's natural capacity, the repulsion to sacred things, such as crucifix and prayers, and knowledge of events that have happened far away, in terms of times and places.
Walker Evans
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
F. H. Bradley
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
Hippocrates
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The only failure is not knowing how to be happy.
Celine Dion
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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino
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I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.
Andre Ward
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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Science is the result of and the instrument for acquiring more and more knowledge, which enable man to outgrow progressively the limitations set to the development of his mind and spirit by old ideas, ideals and notions which resulted from the primitive ignorance of humanity in its infancy.
M. N. Roy
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I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.
Najib Razak
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
Zooey Deschanel
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
Yelena Baturina
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The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.
Naval Ravikant
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Were a real and effective disarmament achieved and the funds now spent in the arms race devoted to the amelioration of man's state; were we to concentrate only on the peaceful uses of nuclear knowledge, how vastly and in how short a time might we change the conditions of mankind. This should be our goal.
Haile Selassie
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
Ian Hacking
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
Lajos Egri