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At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.
William John Wills on knowledge

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 on knowledge

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner on knowledge

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Chuck Yeager on knowledge

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Laurence Olivier on knowledge

And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.
John Sergeant Wise on knowledge

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
Joe Mantegna on knowledge

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.
Emmitt Smith on knowledge

I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didn't.
Busy Philipps on knowledge

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 on knowledge

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
Polykarp Kusch on knowledge

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
Chaim Potok on knowledge

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
Lafcadio Hearn on knowledge

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
Clifford Geertz on knowledge

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
Rocco DiSpirito on knowledge

Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.
Alban Berg on knowledge

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
Meghan O'Rourke on knowledge

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.
Steve Sabol on knowledge

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
James Prescott Joule on knowledge

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun on knowledge