“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.”
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“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.”
“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As a species we are always hungry for new 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.”
“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.”
“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.”
“I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
“The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.”
“My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'”
“Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.”
“Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.”