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.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
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.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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.
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
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!
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.
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?
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.
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.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.
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.
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.
