“In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.”
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“I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.”
“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”
“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”
“I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.”
“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.”
“To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.”
“Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.”
“Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.”
“The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.”
“The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.”
“If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.”
“The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.”
“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.”
“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.”
“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.”
“Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.”
“The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.”
“I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.”
“If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.”
“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”