Knowledge Quotes
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Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
David Petraeus
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Please, God,' Ruth would pray, 'don't let me be competitive. Let me realize what a privilege it is to study. Let me remember that knowledge must be pursued for its own sake and please, please stop me wanting to beat Verena Plackett in the exams.' She prayed hard and she meant what she said. But God was busy that autumn as the International Brigade came back, defeated, from Spain, Hitler's bestialities increased, and sparrows everywhere continued to fall.
Eva Ibbotson
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There are no black women geniuses that are being named in canons. I could name a bunch, but it's not part of common knowledge. It's not how the world is taught to think about black women.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.
Francis Bacon
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We need others to complement and develop our own expertise. This collective character of knowledge does not mean that individuals don’t count. In fact, the best communities welcome strong personalities and encourage disagreements and debates. Controversy is part of what makes a community vital, effective, and productive.
Etienne Wenger
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All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.
Augustus De Morgan
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The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
Zephyr Teachout
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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.
Francis Bacon
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Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive.
Dave Carter
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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.
William Shakespeare
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The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.
John Quelch
