Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Southey

Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Robert M. Pirsig

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Charlie Strong

I'm real concerned. No one has stepped up. We have the guys. But none of them has taken the job.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Cristiana Salvi

Twelve (people) are still in hospital, but none of them are in severe condition.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Ira Rohter

Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them has really set up organizations.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Kate Winslet

None of this 'different diets' lark. I can't remember the last time I tried some new fad.

Jim Cicconi

None of the worst scenarios people have painted here can take place nor are they taking place.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Bill Ward

I think it's just going back to a more normal level.

Cindy Winstead

We're not your normal organization. We have no funding, it's just me.

Tyne Daly

I went into the family business. To me, it was the norm and not the exception.

Robyn Hitchcock

Using the word weird implies that there is a norm.

Robert Southey

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

Virginie LeDoyen

I'm pretty normal looking.

Roselyn Sanchez

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Chris Nelson

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

Donna King

I haven't been told those figures. We all know what we read in the paper about the budgets. I think the school has always been in the red, but not to that amount.

Kelley Armstrong

I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Ron Sanders

That's because they had published prices, and we haven't set prices.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Cathy Austin

Courtney's students, teachers and other students have signed up to volunteer to work the different shifts.

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Julio Franco

Why not? They signed me here for two years.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Jim Hood

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi,

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Estelle

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Dan Ryan

It (mousetrap car) always works better at home.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Andrea Giancoli

For some people, it works very well. For others, it can be very frustrating and too much work.

David Nash

If it works for you, then that's great. It's what makes you feel safe.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.