Knowledge Quotes
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Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.
Yann Tiersen
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
A. E. Waite
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.
W. Timothy Garvey
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
Aubrey Beardsley
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks
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Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
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I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.
Fred Savage
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Konrad Lorenz
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
E. Joseph Cossman
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Carl Jung
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Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.
Pierre Boulez
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Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
Ellen Key
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Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Albert Einstein
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They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
Jimmy Buffett
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The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.
Dayananda Saraswati
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Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
Aristotle
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.
Socrates
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
Kofi Annan
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'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.
Eddie Van Halen Van Halen