It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality. – James Loeb
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. – Ludwig van Beethoven
A good designer has technical knowledge – don’t treat her like someone who’s there to decide whether something should be pink or orange. – Jeffrey Zeldman
When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn. – Jake Shimabukuro
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. – James Smithson
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create – and demonstrate – real, sustainable social impact in society. – Muhammad Yunus
Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge. – Lisa Randall
Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. – Liberty Hyde Bailey
The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be. – Michael Leunig
All my life, I’ve been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that’s the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body. – John Edgar Wideman
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself. – Leon Jouhaux
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that’s obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. – Luc Montagnier
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear. – Martin Seligman
The biggest reason people don’t do things is knowledge. Many people don’t go to the gym because they don’t know what the heck they’re doing. – Jessie Pavelka
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. – Ludwig van Beethoven
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong
Although eBay is a fantastic tool for collectors who want to buy or sell, you really have to have knowledge of items before you embark. – Judith Miller
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. – Joseph Story
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions. – John Bates Clark
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – Khalil Gibran
Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations. – Lucy Stone
To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility. – Lawrence Hargrave
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. – Jean-Francois Lyotard
I am a writer and editor with a passion for true storytelling. To me, science matters, research matters and knowledge matters, whatever the field. – Lee Gutkind
There aren’t many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry. – James Coulter
One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations. – L. Lionel Kendrick
