Quotes with knowledge

Quotes 101 till 120 of 561.

  • Mario Andretti Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • Bill James 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.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Ali ibn Abi Talib Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
    Ali ibn Abi Talib
    Cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (601 - 661)
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  • Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
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    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Auguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Lillian Smith Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty - how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bob Ney Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Ben Miles English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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  • Baltasar Gracian Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Philip Roth Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Horace Mann Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Machen Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • Konrad Lorenz Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
    Konrad Lorenz
    German so lied (1903 - 1989)
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