Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature’s secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
I don’t have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what’s happening down here.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‘This is my country.’
I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.
When you go into the studio or get up on the stage with people who have more experience or knowledge, you learn.
‘In Country’ is about a high school girl’s quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
So I’d be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I’d let him use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge. We’ll do fine.
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.
It would be great to have every engineer have at least some amount of knowledge of machine learning.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.
The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.
I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
One of the basic principles when you dealing with mathematics and Islam: Seek knowledge.
We are shallow because we are ‘mayabang,’ ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I’ve never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.
Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
I am a straight, non-alcoholic, non-partying guy who speaks straight. I have no knowledge of literature. This is my language of communication, and what I see, what I observe, I reflect.
