I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? 1.14K
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. 1.92K
If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn’t do that? 2.27K
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. 766
In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. 2.22K
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them. 738
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. 669
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art. 735
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. 667
Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. 1.53K
It’s kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I’m now working in the security field as a public speaker. 675
I think it’s a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are somehow fundamentally the same. 768
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing. 753
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. 635
What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge – the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it. 1.76K
I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband. 717
Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth. 1.73K
So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. 688
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. 660
Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan’s existence as a country. 716
