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Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Terry Goodkind on knowledge

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert on knowledge

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
Henning Mankell on knowledge

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!
Hal Sparks on knowledge

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
Michelle Rodriguez on knowledge

The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
Alan Cumming on knowledge

The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
Edward Thorndike on knowledge

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Paul Nurse on knowledge

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
Tom Clancy on knowledge

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Huston Smith on knowledge

Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Gustave Courbet on knowledge

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Herbert Simon on knowledge

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 on knowledge

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
William Shenstone on knowledge

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
Kenneth L. Pike on knowledge

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
John McCarthy on knowledge

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard on knowledge

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
John Charles Polanyi on knowledge

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
John Charles Polanyi on knowledge

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
John Charles Polanyi on knowledge