Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

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.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action.