Famous Quotes & Sayings

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

David Cheriton

There are two kinds of researchers : those that have implemented something and those that have not. The latter will tell you that there are 142 ways of doing things and that there isn't consensus on which is best.The former will simply tell you that 141 of them don't work.

David Byrne

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

David Bohm

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Anderson Cooper

I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.

Anderson Cooper

I'm not trying to be something that I'm not. I'm just trying to be myself and talk about what I know, and admit what I don't know.

Amartya Sen

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

Angela Carter

There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.

Jean Piaget

Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

Knowledge is power if you know about the right person

Nick Harkaway

Knowledge is not just power - it is control.

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.

What you lost was a lot of local knowledge,

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Rusty Wallace

I think by the end of the year, he'd have a lot of knowledge. He'd be up on the wheel and ready to go then.

William Butler Yeats

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Georges St-Pierre

The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Herodotus

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Gabrielle Union

Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

Derek Jeter

You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.

George Santayana

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

Ahmed Zewail

Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.

Joanne Woodward

I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

You as a resident need to make yourself prepared and knowledgeable.

When you know that there is going to be a disaster, you can position knowledge and people.

Without knowledge a man is no better than an animal.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.

To my knowledge, yes. I don't think any of us are marked out. But to my knowledge, I believe, yes, he's out of the picture on that.