Knowledge Quotes

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

Jeb Bush

When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind ...

Jim Brown

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Bright

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

John Perry Barlow

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

Julian Baggini

I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

Juliette Binoche

There aren't many people around with the stomach or the knowledge to delve into the airline industry.

James Coulter

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

John Calvin

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.

John Cameron

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

James H. Douglas, Jr.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

John Denham

That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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

Joel Edgerton

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

James A. Forbes

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. ...

Jack Germond

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

Janine di Giovanni

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.

Jeffrey Gitomer

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

John Hawkes