“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”
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“Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.”
“Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.”
“A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.”
“That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.”
“I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.”
“I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.”
“Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.”
“For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.”
“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”
“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.”
“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”
“To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard.”
“I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.”
“Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.”
“Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.”
“I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.”
“Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.”
“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.”
“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.”
“The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.”
“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.”
“It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.”