The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

For me, there is nothing worse than the knowledge that my life holds nothing for me but being a writer.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Science is organized knowledge.