Quotes About Knowledge

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be a reflection of that accumulated value, accumulated knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have the sophistication to put that into play in the work you're making.

I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'

I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

For sure, the American people have access to more information now than any other people who have ever lived on earth. And I think we do a pretty good job of sorting out what's important.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it intrusion.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician - but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is - so that I have an advantage there.

There are things done under the name of science which are ridiculous. But there is also stuff done which sounds funny but is really serious.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

We need to read history from the source.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.

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

It's amazing what you can get on open source now if you actually use the right search engines to find the material.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.