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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Good
Knowledge
Men
Whatever
Logic
Tendency
Make
Theory
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes
Knowledge
Science
Consequences
Fact
Another
Dependence
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Thomas Huxley
Faith
Knowledge
Natural
Unpardonable
Absolutely
Highest
Sin
Blind
Blind Faith
Him
Authority
Duties
Refuses
Acknowledge
Skepticism
When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.
Timothy Leary
Knowledge
Personality
Behavior
Will
Past
Our
Ancestors
Systematic
Possible
Determine
Determined
More
Advanced
Study
Implied
Documents
Historical
Human
Literary
Views
Expressed
Expressive
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
Vikas Swarup
Education
Wisdom
Knowledge
Sense
Someone
Had
He
Because
Does
Educated
Just
Common
Just Because
Formal
Formal Education
Common Sense
Mean
Elite
Preserve
In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.
Viswanathan Anand
Knowledge
Sometimes
Single
Changes
Chess
Very
Transient
Evaluation
Even
Fast
Thing
Most successful entrepreneurs share their knowledge as a way of giving back. They do not demand compensation. Those who do are usually trying to take advantage of you.
Vivek Wadhwa
Knowledge
You
Giving
Take Advantage
Back
Way
Those
Giving Back
Entrepreneurs
Take
Share
Advantage
Demand
Most
Trying
Successful
Who
Compensation
Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
W. Edwards Deming
Knowledge
Problem
Lack
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs
Knowledge
Relative
Superficial
Only
Going
Your
Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
Life
Knowledge
Important
Few
Accompanies
Very
Few Things
Us
Next
Next Life
Things
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo
Myself
Knowledge
Reading
Books
Generally
Like
Reading Books
Just
Information
Really
I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.
Shaquille O'Neal
Knowledge
Lose
Older
Step
Mission
Know
Got
Lot
Up
Get
May
Two
Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
A. E. Waite
Life
Knowledge
Business
Own
Harmony
Evidence
Sphere
Aptitude
Seldom
Mystic
Faculty
Like
Very
Ordinary
Canon
Either
Ordinary Life
Works
Now
Things
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
A. E. Waite
Life
Good
Knowledge
Man
Woman
Good And Evil
Evil
Tree
Tree Of Life
Bearing
Behind
Fruits
Twelve
Round
Serpent
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Daily
Knowledge
Challenges
Opportunity
Changes
Vast
Altered
Globe
Historic
Human
Breakthroughs
Realities
Across
Human Knowledge
Numbers
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
Abigail Adams
Knowledge
Mother
Thought
Hers
Fine
Daughters
Since
Most
She
Well
Been
Afraid
Eve
Her
Thing
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
Adam Braun
Knowledge
Passion
Resource
Our
Resources
Collaboration
States
Possess
Scarce
Abundant
Most
United
United States
Amongst
Million
The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough.
Adam Lashinsky
Knowledge
Creation
Enough
Scholars
Acknowledgment
Program
In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
Adam Ross
Crazy
Knowledge
You
Game
Writing
Ramifications
Way
Complex
Kind
Composing
Like
Make
Chess
Lot
Very
Any
Move
Where
Choice
Each
The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.
Adrienne Mayor
Knowledge
Culture
Women
Anxiety
Men
Men And Women
Gender
First
Nation
Relations
Later
Distinguished
Out
Martial
About
Something
Mythic
Outstanding
Identified
Alternative
Narratives
Ambivalence
Greeks
Any
Among
Played
Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.
Ahmed Zewail
Knowledge
Passion
Enriched
True
Feel
Been
America
Egypt
Endowed
Experiences
Personally
Fortunate
Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
Ahmed Zewail
Me
Knowledge
Islam
Nothing
Way
Put
Quest
Against
Fundamentally
Initially, I didn't have much knowledge about cinema. But once I started doing good films, precisely after 'Kaaka Muttai,' people started respecting me as a performer.
Aishwarya Rajesh
Good
Me
Knowledge
People
Cinema
Films
Once
Respecting
About
Performer
Doing
Doing Good
Precisely
After
Much
Initially
Started
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Alain Rene Le Sage
Knowledge
Doubt
Above
Below
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
Alan Alda
Myself
Me
Knowledge
Business
People
Field
Other
No Business
Find
Scares
Because
Very
Going
Often
Where
Places
Really
Speaking
Whole
Extensive
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
Alan Bennett
Knowledge
Slightest
Precious
Human
Whether
Use
Serve
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