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 on knowledge
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. Arthur Machen on knowledge
For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. Richard Cobden on knowledge
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence. Albrecht Durer on knowledge
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. Jane Porter on knowledge
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. Wilbur Wright on knowledge
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard. David Soul on knowledge
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 on knowledge
Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. Roland Barthes on knowledge
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. Kurt Russell on knowledge
Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set. Joel Edgerton on knowledge
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 on knowledge
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 on knowledge
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. Albert J. Nock on knowledge
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock on knowledge
Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. Albert J. Nock on knowledge
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock on knowledge
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Albert J. Nock on knowledge
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned. James Lafferty on knowledge
A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge. Richard Leakey on knowledge