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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
– Alexander the Great
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I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.
– Miroslav Vitous
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I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
– Steve Kanaly
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I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.
– Emily Blunt
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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
– Ella Maillart
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
– Hans Blix
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
– Polykarp Kusch
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I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.
– Cathy Freeman
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I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
– Michael Caine
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
– Isaac Hanson
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I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.
– Willie Nelson
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I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
– Steven Hatfill
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I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
– Natalia Makarova
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I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
– Margaret Spellings
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I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.
– John Shelton Reed
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I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
– Peter Garrett
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
– Karl Jaspers
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
– Harold Brodkey
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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.
– Frederick Sanger
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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.
– Judy Holliday
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I am excited to bring my deep knowledge, passion and expertise of soccer in this country to The New York Cosmos. They truly represent where this sport is headed on a national and international level, and I want to make history with them.
– Cobi Jones
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I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
– Mikhail Bakunin
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I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.
– Ezra Miller
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Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
– William Penn
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Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
– David Deutsch
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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
– Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
– John Jewel
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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
– Herbert Simon
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
– John Charles Polanyi
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Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
– Plato
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
– Franz Kafka
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
– Sophocles
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How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.
– Steve Harvey
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.
– Mary Astell
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
– J. K. Rowling
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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
– William Shenstone
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
– Harrison Salisbury
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
– Lucy Stone
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Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
– Charles Stanley
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He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
– Friedrich August von Hayek
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
– Thomas Jefferson
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He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.
– Henry Villard
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
– Pericles
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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
– Roy H. Williams
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Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
– William Kirby
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Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.
– Caitlin Rose
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Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
– Vijay Singh
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
– Adam Weishaupt
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Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
– Robert Millikan
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From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
– Talcott Parsons
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
– Origen
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For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.
– Richard Cobden
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For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
– Jacqueline Emerson
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For example, I spent a lot of time with Reagan, both before he ran for governor and when he was running for president. As a print reporter without the cameras, I was able to really test the quality of their minds and their knowledge base.
– Robert Scheer
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Fine art is knowledge made visible.
– Gustave Courbet
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
– John Bates Clark
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
– Huston Smith
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.
– Joel Edgerton
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
– Horace Mann
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Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
– Gary Vaynerchuk
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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
– Vincent van Gogh
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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
– Karl Jaspers
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Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
– John Cale
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
– Theodore Bikel
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Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
– Plato
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
– Mary Augusta Ward
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Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
– Imre Lakatos
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
– Lillian Smith
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Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.
– Leland Stanford
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
– Vera Farmiga
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Doubt grows with knowledge.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
– Bertrand Russell
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Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.
– David Cronenberg
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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
– Ali ibn-Abi-Talib
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
– Nate Silver
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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.
– Guy Clark
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Crime shapes how we think about the world it shapes social decisions that we make it shapes our base of knowledge. But we don't talk about it intelligently.
– Bill James
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
– Albert J. Nock
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
– Karen Armstrong
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Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
– Trofim Lysenko
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Chess is not only knowledge and logic.
– Alexander Alekhine
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.
– Zhuangzi
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Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
– Giambattista Valli
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?
– Louis Aragon
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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
– Albert Claude
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But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!
– Juno Temple
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
– Talcott Parsons
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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
– John Buchanan Robinson
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But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
– George Jackson
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But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.
– Steven Hatfill
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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.
– Thomas a Kempis
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Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
– Jesse James Garrett
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Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.
– Dan Farmer
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
– George Henry Lewes
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Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
– Boris Spassky
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Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
– George Bernard Shaw
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