Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Alison Gopnik

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge.

Britt Robertson

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

Charles Babbage

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Jung

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Charles Lederer

I made mistakes. I let other people influence me and make decisions, sometimes without my knowledge.

Cathy Moriarty

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Confucius

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

David Gross

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

Derek Jeter

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

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Enya

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Frances Wright

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

George Edward Woodberry

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

Henry Bolingbroke

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Hortense Odlum

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Joseph Addison