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Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.
Conrad Bums on knowledge

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
Duane G. Carey on knowledge

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
Russell Simmons on knowledge

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
John Boyd Orr on knowledge

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
John Boyd Orr on knowledge

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
John Boyd Orr on knowledge

These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
Frances Wright on knowledge

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.
Frances Wright on knowledge

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.
Ruben Studdard on knowledge

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
Andrew Coyle Bradley on knowledge

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
Ayumi Hamasaki on knowledge

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.
Shannon Miller on knowledge

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino on knowledge

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
Zebulon Pike on knowledge

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 on knowledge

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi on knowledge

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Jean-Francois Lyotard on knowledge

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Jean-Francois Lyotard on knowledge

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Matthew Simpson on knowledge

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources.
Matthew Simpson on knowledge