Knowledge Quotes

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Joe Wright

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.

Jacqueline Emerson

Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them.

Anne Wilson Schaef

How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

John Abbott

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

Herbert Simon

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Lord Mountbatten

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Shannon Miller

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Don Rickles

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Hector Hugh Munro

Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

William Shakespeare

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin Pierce Adams

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Joseph Addison

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

Roy H. Williams

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.

Todd Barry

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Elie Wiesel

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King Solomon

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