Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge. 681
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That’s the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans’. We don’t simply skim the elite. 1.88K
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power – power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. 658
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term ‘doubting Thomas’ well illustrates the difference. 2.58K
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. 650
Do you remember when you found out you wouldn’t live forever? People don’t talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you’re not born with that knowledge. 1.92K
It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. 2.27K
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. 836
By every measure, John Kennedy’s sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy’s behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy’s re-election had he survived assassination. 826
Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece. 656
As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there’s also something about it that every time you really feel like you’re doing it for the first time; you have no idea whether you’re capable of it. 681
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. 698
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it. 815
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story’s going to end and how it’s going to go. But on television nobody knows what’s going to happen, even the writers. 729
I mean, it’s the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can. 761
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. 727
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view. 1.59K
