975 private quotes tagged 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

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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.” — Stokely Carmichael

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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.” — Scott Adams

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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” — Oswald Chambers

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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.” — Zhuangzi

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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.” — Hippocrates

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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” — Walter Lang

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“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” — John Calvin

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“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.” — Daniel Radcliffe

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“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” — Sydney Madwed

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“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

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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.” — Steve Harvey

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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” — Henry Miller

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“So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.” — Newt Gingrich

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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” — Charles Babbage

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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.” — Walter Lippmann

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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.” — Daniel D. Palmer

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“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.” — Daniel J. Boorstin

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“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” — Lord Chesterfield

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“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.” — George Santayana

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“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

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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” — Thomas Friedman

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