Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph W. Sockman

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Susanne Langer

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Ivan Urlaub

We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.

V. S. Naipaul

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Source Unknown

Paraphrased: Among the degrees of the universal Manifestation, each sentient creature typically experiences an illusory sense of autonomy. At the same time, with or without the creature's awareness, the creature subsists eternally as an "immutable prototype" in the divine Knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

David Weinberger

With the new medium of knowledge - the Internet - knowledge not only takes on properties of that medium but also lives at the level of the network.

Edwards Deming

Lack of knowledge . . . that is the problem.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Brian Koslow

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make.

Eric Fellner

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

Edward Fitzgerald

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less

Sigourney Weaver

I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.

Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

Jose Antonio Vargas

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.

Jeffrey Kluger

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Olga Kurylenko

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near/ Under the snow,/ Speak gently, she can hear/ The daisies grow.

Ludwig von Mises

If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

William Shakespeare

Have more than you show, Speak less than you know.

William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.

William Shakespeare

You speak an infinite deal of nothing.

will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Tamara Tunie

Even though you're married, you're still individuals. You still have to grow and nurture your individuality.

Nita Ambani

My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.

Sandrine Bonnaire

I'm not very eccentric. I wear more conservative clothes, though I do like mini-skirts.

Nathaniel Philbrick

Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

William Penn

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

Chen Guangbiao

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Pontius Pilate

Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?