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"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse." »Brian Eno
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"Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance." »John Schumaker
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"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen." »Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2
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"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists." »M. C. Escher
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"Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man-the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." »Lee C. Bollinger
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"The end of man is knowledge but there's 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 Penn Warren
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George F. Will
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"knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George Will
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"knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." »Vine Deloria
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power." »Jeremy Taylor
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"Adorn thy mind with knowledge, for knowledge maketh thy worth." »Firdausi
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"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." »Enrico Fermi
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." »Stephen Hawking
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"knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita
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"The adage that knowledge is power is true. In the world of financial markets and investments, knowledge is the ultimate power. Educate yourself before you invest, if you know something that others don't, you will make a lot of money" »Med Jones
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"Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy." »Firdausi
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"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power." »Mark Rutherford
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." »James Madison
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know." »Socrates
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"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." »Vernon Cooper
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"Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities." »Dee W. Hock
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