I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.
I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.
If I have enough ego to say I’m a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
I think that we all absolutely have curiosity. It brings about knowledge. It’s energizing. It’s spiritually empowering. It makes us more interesting as people.
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.
The Internet has given us an unlimited platform of knowledge and inspiration. Sometimes the most efficient way to create a new sound is to cross between genres and experiment with noises/tempos that wouldn’t normally go together.
