"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
"The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want."
"Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
"When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory."
"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
"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."
"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame."
"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."
"If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too."
"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."
"The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility."
"Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture."
"The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be."
"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."
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."
"But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?"
"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."
"For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that."
"As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge."
"May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good."
"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."
"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
"I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'."
"Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful."
"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."
"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may."
"All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes."
"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."
"Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow."