My mother called me after one of the first episodes of MTV’s Loveline and said, 'So, when did you become so knowledgeable about oral sex?'
Catherine McCordOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur RimbaudYou are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag HammarskjoldIn much knowledge there is also much grief.
Queen Marie Of RomaniaA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F DruckerWe must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott AdamsBecause psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
Pearl BuckAs we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
Franklin BuchananI agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
Kerry PackerThe senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolas CopernicusApothegms form a short cut to much knowledge
Thomas HoodReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonI am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl BuckI certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie FarmerNo one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North WhiteheadI'm afraid I'm not really interested in starting off someone's career and trying to turn a nobody into a someone. All my expertise, and all my recent knowledge, lies at the top end of the sport.
Colin JacksonMy delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent
Golda MeirWe acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
Camilla Parker BowlesThe great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H LewesTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Kong Fu ZiEvil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone WeilFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonWe must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles DarwinEven knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar GracianI have taken all knowledge to be my province.
Francis BaconA judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
Thomas CarlyleLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John AdamsKnowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William JamesHe is a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He is a man who serves the Lord.
We remember well a sermon at the pope's funeral in Rome. His words touched our hearts and the hearts of millions. We join with our fellow citizens and millions around the world who pray for continuous strength and wisdom. [on Pope Benedict XVI]
George BushThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordAs the biggest library, if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Arthur SchopenhauerLive in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
Sofia MilosIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James GibsonIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinSelf-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil GibranIt is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of beings.
Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizI do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
George MacDonaldWisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonAll men by nature desire knowledge.
AristotleIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone De BeauvoirSir Ian Blair has made no acknowledgement of any structural deficiencies whatever on his watch.
Melanie PhillipsKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperGetting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleyThe animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber
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