The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them. Henry Bolingbroke
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. Henri Poincare
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. Pearl Bailey
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. Talib Kweli
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. Talib Kweli
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love. Luther Burbank
You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different. Cat Deeley
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. Thomas B. Macaulay
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas B. Macaulay
The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. Jeremy Bentham
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. Ralph Ellison
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. Brigham Young
So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies. Tippi Hedren
It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems. John Hawkes
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite. Donna Shalala
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. Tahar Ben Jelloun
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them. Steven Seagal
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. Thomas Reid