When my grandfather was born, there was no healthcare. There were no airplanes. There were no boats. There were no trains. There were no communications. No Internet. No widespread knowledge. It will be a completely different world but a much better place in a hundred years.
One of the best times at a start-up is when you've got the eight people in the basement eating Chinese food and everybody kind of shares knowledge, and you share in your successes and failures together, and you learn together.
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.
As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.
The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed; they just fail to act on that knowledge.
In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.
I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.
Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
When we can reach out as coaches and give back to these kids and touch them with the knowledge and with the thought process to give them the opportunity to do something that they dream about doing, that's what God put us here for.
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.
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.
We'll continue to try to increase knowledge about our culture.
I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.
Machines have the ability to assemble things faster than any human ever could, but humans possess the analytics, domain expertise, and valuable knowledge required to solve problems and optimize factory floor production.
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Many people thought that, given my knowledge of the egg, I should analyse embryonic mutants.
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'