Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.

Jakob Bohme

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.

Jeb Bush

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

John Calvin

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Joel Edgerton

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

Jacques Lacan

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

James Rouse

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Josiah Royce

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylor

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Leon Spinks

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.

Leonardo da Vinci

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Mary Kay Blakely

The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.

Michael Gove

The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.

Max Heindel

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 ...

Miroslav Vitous

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.

Nancy Pearcey

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

Oliver Joseph Lodge

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

Paul Haggis

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

Peter Lombard