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We mistake being able to get lots of information from everywhere very quickly with actually getting knowledge.
Margaret MacMillan
Knowledge
Mistake
Everywhere
Able
Lots
Very
Quickly
Get
Getting
Being
Information
Actually
I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.
Margaret Spellings
Teacher
Knowledge
Achievement
Matter
Think
Kids
Critical
Impart
He
He Or She
Know
Piece
She
Knows
How
Doing
Subject
Subject Matter
Closing
Who
Gap
That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
Knowledge
Scientific
Which
Popular
All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.
Maria Monk
Religion
Me
Knowledge
Ignorance
Experience
Own
Indecision
Would
All-Around
Insisted
Give
Something
My Own
Only
Advance
Knew
True
Soon
Like
True Knowledge
Around
Felt
Proved
Place
Doubts
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
Marie Curie
Death
Knowledge
Husband
National
Circles
Immediately
General
General Knowledge
Misfortune
Name
Felt
Scientific
Coming
His
Discoveries
After
Which
Public
Associated
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Marilu Henner
Day
Thanksgiving
Knowledge
Year
Pounds
Between
New
American
Common
Common Knowledge
Gains
Average
Average American
Now
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
Marilynne Robinson
Truth
Saying
Knowledge
Truth Is
Myth
Poetry
Simply
Idea
Like
Opposite
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.
Marissa Moss
Knowledge
Books
About
More
Read
Historical
Get
Depth
Much
Working
Organized
Need
Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
Love
Knowledge
Yourself
Gift
Giving
Kind
About
Someone
Most
Knowing
Profound
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With that qualification, my opinion is that the point of interrogation is to get at the truth, not to get at what the interrogator wants to hear.
Martin Seligman
Truth
Knowledge
Seen
Only
Point
Never
Qualification
Opinion
Passing
Hear
Get
Wants
Literature
Worked
Interrogation
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species.
Martin Seligman
God
Religion
Knowledge
History
Righteousness
Ethics
Long
Omnipotence
Our
Long Process
Lifetime
Lifetimes
End
Going
May
Human
Happen
Process
Human History
View
Even
Species
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
Marvin Minsky
Good
Knowledge
Problem
Vision
Systems
Computer
David
Had
He
Excitement
MIT
His
Lot
Up
Hit
Representation
Moved
Against
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
Mary Beard
Democracy
Knowledge
Knew
Information
Decision-Making
Informed
Requires
Plato
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
Mary Kay Blakely
Me
Knowledge
About
Magical
Absolute
Inspired
Years
Infant
Did
Any
Dependence
Newborn
Next
Many
Activate
Twenty
Things
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Knowledge
Prime
Hour
Need
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.
Maryanne Wolf
Life
Thoughts
Knowledge
Entertainment
Joy
Digital
Will
Own
Rich
Doubt
Thinking
Our
No Doubt
Given
Beyond
Concern
Learn
Passive
Provide
Effort
Going
Children
Information
Third
Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.
Masayoshi Son
Wisdom
Knowledge
Valuable
Most
Body
Things
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
Matthew Simpson
Faith
Knowledge
Old
Circle
Universe
Immediate
Through
Narrow
Personal
Move
Which
Eternity
Bodies
Realm
Derived
Wide
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
Matthew Simpson
Faith
Character
Knowledge
Power
Must
Give
More
More Power
Through
How
How Much
Human
Gain
Agency
Then
Much
Elevation
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Death
Knowledge
Animals
Nothing
Our
More
Merely
Know
Than
Die
Us
Painful
Helps
The man who realizes his ignorance has taken the first step toward knowledge.
Max Heindel
Knowledge
Man
Ignorance
First
Step
Taken
Toward
First Step
His
Who
Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized knowledge.
Michael Dirda
Knowledge
Backgrounds
Critics
Objectivity
Come
Known
Venues
Editors
Demonstrate
Established
Certain
Specialized
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
Michael Gove
Knowledge
Key
Cultural
Mobility
Accumulate
Social
Capital
Acquisition
You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.
Michael Hintze
Knowledge
You
Noise
Long
Timing
Insight
Data
Risk
Take
Put
Execute
Trade
How
Get
Manage
Short
Information
Then
I wasn't setting out to write a documentary; if I had, I would have done it in a completely different way. I was asked to write a drama that would appeal to a big audience in America that had no knowledge or interest in The Tudors at all.
Michael Hirst
Knowledge
Big
Setting
Drama
Way
Out
Would
Write
Had
Documentary
Audience
America
Done
Different
Interest
Asked
Appeal
Different Way
This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.
Michael Kelly
Knowledge
Respect
People
World
Country
Believe
Statesman
Proper
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Any
Represent
Represents
Happening
Decorum
Who
Deserves
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