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Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.
Gerhard Herzberg
Knowledge
Science
Our
Horizons
More
Pursue
Because
Discovered
Much
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.
Gertrude Jekyll
Work
Wisdom
Alone
Knowledge
Garden
Other
Kinds
Some
Perceiving
Only
Also
Well
Arrangement
Gain
Acquire
Decorative
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.
Giacomo Casanova
Me
Knowledge
Giving
Feeling
More
Shall
Feel
Know
Likewise
Because
Felt
Exist
Existence
Lived
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Knowledge
Learning
Eternal
Thing
It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
Havelock Ellis
Knowledge
Old
First
Wish
Our
Must
Morals
Clear
Maintained
Longer
Becoming
Improve
Platitudes
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 IV of England
Knowledge
Word
Unlearn
First
Way
About
Take
Nobody
Principles
Surest
Surest Way
Real
Arriving
Been
Real Knowledge
Mount
Taught
Them
Shortest
Lessons
To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.
Herbert A. Simon
Environmental
Nature
Knowledge
Peace
World
Behavior
Problems
Poverty
Understanding
Energy
Our
Resources
Broaden
Mineral
Hunger
Must
Laws
Deal
Human
Human Behavior
Pollution
Population
Deepen
You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.
Herbie Hancock
Wisdom
Knowledge
You
Practice
Attain
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse
Knowledge
Learning
Believe
Everything
Everywhere
We Cannot
My Friend
Something
Only
Call
Friend
Essence
Cannot
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
Work
Knowledge
Intelligence
World
Mind
Wicked
Society
Addition
Aims
Impart
Only
Take
Develop
Share
Perhaps
Schooling
Schools
Hand
Intended
Improving
Done
After
Lend
Social
Prepare
Two
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin
Knowledge
Ugly
Side
Intimate
Pursuing
Price
Calling
Any
Pays
Profession
Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
James E. Faust
Great
Nature
Knowledge
Women
Equality
Nurturing
Men
Motherhood
Before
Those
Responsibilities
Restoration
Come
Gospel
Lord
Women Are
Times
Roles
Differ
Endowed
Acknowledgment
Us
Full
Fullness
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may be a candidate.
James Rothman
Truth
Knowledge
Truth Is
Some
Indirect
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Almost
Sort
Another
Prize
Candidate
May
Anyone
Who
Receives
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber
Knowledge
Man
Animals
Economics
Depend
Once
Laws
More
Road
Instinct
Powers
How
Reduced
His
Tragic
Than
Which
Them
Tobacco
Farce
Inherent
Reason
Level
Apply
Funnier
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
History
Past
Changed
Changing
State
Rapidly
More
Current
Current State
Just
In The Past
Moment
Many
Ever
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
Jean Piaget
Knowledge
Problem
Made
Our
Point
Higher
Point Of View
Genetic
Judged
How
Psychology
Explain
Transition
Lower
Epistemology
View
Level
Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.
Jim Brown
Education
Day
Freedom
Knowledge
Justice
Equality
Men
Young
Case
Stepped
Individuals
Educated
Were
Up
Represent
Human
Human Beings
Young Men
Really
Used
Beings
Champions
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
John Coltrane
Music
Faith
Spiritual
Knowledge
Am
Being
Expression
All my life, I've been very aware of my body. I have always used it as a gauge of things. When I look at a person, and I see their body, that's the beginning of knowledge about them. Furthermore, I respect the body.
John Edgar Wideman
Life
Knowledge
Respect
My Life
Beginning
Gauge
Furthermore
All My Life
See
About
Look
Always
Been
Very
Person
Them
Body
Used
Aware
Things
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
John Jewel
Knowledge
Dark
Philosophy
Astrology
Uncertain
Geometry
Human
Human Knowledge
The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
Kelsey Grammer
Knowledge
Judgment
Sin
Without
Greatest
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
Klaus Fuchs
Knowledge
People
Party
Building
Revolution
Must
Would
Would-Be
Finish
Take
Studies
Part
Because
Said
Germany
After
Required
Communist
Communist Party
Technical
Technical Knowledge
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
Kurt Loder
Music
News
Knowledge
Word
Important
Think
Television
Adjunct
More
Rely
No-One
Written
Written Word
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Still
Going
Just
The Most Important
Either
Which
Should
Thing
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.
Margaret Atwood
Knowledge
You
Will
Out
Points
Partial
Journalism
Come
Involved
Biased
Always
Up
Any
Going
Behind
Form
Story
Against
View
Viewpoint
I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.
Marie Osmond
Knowledge
Everything
Claim
Seeker
Know
I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!
Michael Caine
Knowledge
You
Old
Young
Enough
Stayed
Something
Feel
Like
Know
Look
Old Enough
Forward
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