Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
I listened more than I studied... therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.
Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
