“Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.”
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“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”
“The greatest sin is judgment without 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.”
“Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.”
“If they exert it not for good, they will for evil if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.”
“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”
“Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.”
“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.”
“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.”
“There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.”
“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”
“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
“As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.”
“As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.”
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
“Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.”
“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.”
“'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.”
“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”
“The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.”
“A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.”
“Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”