I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.
I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which will correct physical faults and prepare a dancer for any type of dancing he may wish to follow; a technique having all the basic movements which govern the actions of the body; combined with a knowledge of the origin of movement and a sense of artistic design.
The disciple is not hankering for knowledge; he wants to see, not to know. He wants to be. He is no longer interested in having more knowledge; he wants to have more being.
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.
The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, why would we ask those who do not fear the Lord to teach our children?
Knowledge, idea, belief stands in the way of wisdom.
The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.
As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.
