A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
You can only maintain your interest if you’re travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before.
Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.
We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge – all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.
Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.
Knowledge is gender neutral, and hence the 21st century offers a great opportunity to level the gender inequity of the last thousand years in India.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
