“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”
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“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”
“It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.”
“I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.”
“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
“In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.”
“That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.”
“I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else.”
“The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.”
“The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.”
“To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.”
“Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.”
“And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.”
“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.”
“Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.”
“If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.”
“Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.”
“These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.”
“All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.”
“Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.”
“It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.”
“I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.”
“You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?”
“Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.”