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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Raoul Vaneigem on knowledge

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
Kristin Scott Thomas on knowledge

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
Benjamin Carson on knowledge

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Benjamin Carson on knowledge

If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'
Benjamin Carson on knowledge

I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.
George McGovern on knowledge

Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse Ventura on knowledge

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.
Robert Collier on knowledge

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead on knowledge

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
William Glasser on knowledge

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
William Glasser on knowledge

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
William Glasser on knowledge

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Lafcadio Hearn on knowledge

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.
Katharine Graham on knowledge

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett on knowledge

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
William Ellery Channing on knowledge

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
David Suzuki on knowledge

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Christopher Lasch on knowledge

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Jean Piaget on knowledge

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Kelsey Grammer on knowledge