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Irving, Washington | Knowledge

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

Clifford Geertz | Knowledge

Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear.

Yezirah, Sepher | Knowledge

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Dudley Warner | Knowledge

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Laertius, Diogenes | Knowledge

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato | Knowledge

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove | Knowledge

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Maria Mitchell | Knowledge

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Joseph | Knowledge

Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.

Paul Davies | Knowledge

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

Jacques Barzun | Knowledge

One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.

Jon Kyl | Knowledge

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus | Knowledge

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Meghan O'Rourke | Knowledge

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.

Alban Berg | Knowledge

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus | Knowledge

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

Charles Bowen | Knowledge

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Hazlitt, William | Knowledge

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

Chuck Yeager | Knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh

Stanhope, Philip D. | Knowledge

Knowledge is not achieved until shared.

Unknown | Knowledge

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Paul Davies | Knowledge

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Phillips, Wendell | Knowledge

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Miller, Henry | Knowledge

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Baruch, Bernard Mannes | Knowledge

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

Polykarp Kusch | Knowledge

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Blavatsky, H. P. | Knowledge

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis | Knowledge

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Huxley, Thomas H. | Knowledge

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Steve Sabol | Knowledge

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.

Busy Philipps | Knowledge

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

Joe Mantegna | Knowledge

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

Hans Blix | Knowledge

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier | Knowledge

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.

Rocco DiSpirito | Knowledge

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)

Bible | Knowledge

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Lafcadio Hearn | Knowledge

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.

Karl Jaspers | Knowledge

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.

David Ben-Gurion | Knowledge

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

William John Wills | Knowledge

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it for the first time you have no idea whether you're capable of it.

Brit Marling | Knowledge

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

Chaim Potok | Knowledge

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.

John Sergeant Wise | Knowledge

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.

Emmitt Smith | Knowledge

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

James Prescott Joule | Knowledge

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fuller | Knowledge

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

William Hazlitt | Knowledge

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton | Knowledge

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

William S. Burroughs | Knowledge

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Abbott L. Lowell | Knowledge

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Zebulon Pike | Knowledge

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

Harry Browne | Knowledge

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Benjamin Carson | Knowledge

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.

Wangari Maathai | Knowledge

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Chris Morris | Knowledge

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

Robert Collier | Knowledge

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

William Glasser | Knowledge

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

Tom Jenkinson | Knowledge

Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.

Samuel Horsley | Knowledge

Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel | Knowledge

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas | Knowledge

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

John Warnock | Knowledge

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

G. I. Gurdjieff | Knowledge

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

Abu Bakr | Knowledge

With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

Sonny Bono | Knowledge

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever | Knowledge

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon | Knowledge

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson | Knowledge

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Orison Swett Marden | Knowledge

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Sidney Hook | Knowledge

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Buffalo Bill | Knowledge

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

Scott Turow | Knowledge

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Anne Wilson Schaef | Knowledge

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein | Knowledge

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci | Knowledge

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

Estelle Morris | Knowledge

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Benjamin Disraeli | Knowledge

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot | Knowledge

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

T. S. Eliot | Knowledge

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

John Locke | Knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius | Knowledge

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.

Walter Mosley | Knowledge

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

Jimmy Carter | Knowledge

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

Abdullah Ibrahim | Knowledge

When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.

Joseph Lancaster | Knowledge

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Abu Bakr | Knowledge

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron | Knowledge

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

Marvin Minsky | Knowledge

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

Herbert Spencer | Knowledge

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

Arthur Conan Doyle | Knowledge

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Shirley MacLaine | Knowledge

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw | Knowledge

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Will Harvey | Knowledge

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg | Knowledge

What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.

Cheech Marin | Knowledge

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard | Knowledge

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Elie Wiesel | Knowledge

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Vine Deloria, Jr. | Knowledge

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

Andy Grammer | Knowledge

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Johnny Isakson | Knowledge

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Abigail Adams | Knowledge