Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.

Edward Thorndike

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

Fran Drescher

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.

George Reisman

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Georges St-Pierre

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Julian Baggini

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Juan Cole

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

James H. Douglas, Jr.

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

John Hawkes

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

Jack LaLanne

Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.

John Tyndall

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

Jimmy Wales

Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I 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 Packer

My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

Leroy Hood

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

Lord Mountbatten

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Luc Montagnier

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

Laurence Olivier

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

Marc Davis

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Mark Pagel