Knowledge Quotes
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We think by feeling. What is there to know?
Theodore Roethke
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne Langer
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
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In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build a beautiful and functional bridge without a knowledge of steel and dirt, and a considerable mathematical technique for using this knowledge to compute the properties of structures. Similarly, one cannot build a beautiful computer system without a deep understanding of how to "previsualize" the process generated by the code one writes.
Gerald Jay Sussman
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Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
Alan Alda
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Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Richard Feynman
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Knowledge is governed not by a theory of knowledge, but by a theory of discursive practice.
Michel Foucault
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Ch. 1 : The Seven Realities of Meher Baba’s Teaching (Existence, Love, Sacrifice, Renunciation, Knowledge, Control and Surrender).
Meher Baba
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There's no such thing as useless knowledge. You never know what doors it's going to open up for you.
Benjamin Carson
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It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
James Loeb
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I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
Heidi Hammel
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He got up and talked about what they ran and why they ran it. I was just amazed at his presence and his knowledge.
Bret Bielema
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Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
Bruce Feiler
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It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
William Hazlitt
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Hermann Hesse
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The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
Emil Cioran
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The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.
Harry S Truman
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The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security - somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.
Connie Brockway
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When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite.You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.
Barrows Dunham
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
Boyd Norton
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
Rene Descartes
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
Thomas Carlyle