You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.
But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things.
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena.
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.