They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer ...
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.
The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.
I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole
