I’m not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
The more knowledge you’ve got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Many in the world are searching, often intensely, for a source of refreshment that will quench their yearning for meaning and direction in their lives. They crave a cool, satisfying drink of insight and knowledge that will soothe their parched souls.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
You can’t get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
We sometimes think that the best doctors are the ones who have the most specialized knowledge or the fanciest degrees, but in fact, study upon study, including one published in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine,’ show that the best doctors are the ones who also know how to connect with their patients.
It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am – my faith, my knowledge, my being.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, ‘He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!’
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
I went to a nutritionist; my diet is pretty clean, but I wanted to get some more knowledge and understanding in some areas. My two favorite things, Clif Bars and lattes, she just destroyed in our first meeting. Coffee is fine, but soy is the most genetically modified food that we eat.
All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
It would be great to have every engineer have at least some amount of knowledge of machine learning.
The degree of intelligence that a man or a machine can show depends on many qualities of the ways that knowledge, goals, and problem-solving techniques are represented and put together, and not so much on the fine details.
Some say that sudden knowledge of mystical matters is accomplished only in complete quietude, or that Creator, in one of God’s many forms, appears only in orderly ways that are beauteous and picturesque, or that the mystical appears only in completely silent ways. All are true. Except for the ‘only’ part.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.
Among my European ancestors were piano builders, goldsmiths, and vintners but, to the best of my knowledge, no professionals of any kind.
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
I listened more than I studied… therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession of scholars, both Indian and European, who have lived in this city, made it their own, and given it of their best.
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.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.
A broker who discovers an undervalued stock does not advertise it until he has bought a large enough quantity without letting the price go up. When the brokers’ connection with a stock becomes public knowledge, it is usually a sure sign of manipulation and that the broker is seeking to drive up the price.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
