There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least likely to resort to oppressive expedients, or sacrifice any particular class of citizens to the procurement of revenue. It might be demonstrated that the most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.
Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.
Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart.
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.
The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact.
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
Where knowledge is denied, faith comes in.
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.