“There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.”
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“It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word.”
“To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.”
“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.”
“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.”
“As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.”
“But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.”
“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.”
“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!”
“Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.”
“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.”
“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.”
“My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.”
“My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.”
“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”
“I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.”
“Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.”
“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.”
“Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.”
“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.”
“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
“Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.”
“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”