Famous Quotes About knowledge

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.