Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
You can go online now and find really thoughtful, in-depth, considered, well-informed communities around virtually any issue. If it's your issue, there are now new ways of mobilising knowledge that weren't there before. There are real bodies of significant knowledge on the web that are valuable that we haven't done nearly enough with.
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.
To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point.
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
It has been common knowledge to informed collectors that many times the finest and rarest art glass is found unsigned.
If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
The Greeks first identified the Amazons ethnographically, as a nation of men and women distinguished by something outstanding in their gender relations. Later, any ambivalence or anxiety that knowledge of this alternative gender-neutral culture evoked among Greeks was played out in their mythic narratives about martial women.
I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.
The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.
Knowledge is power.
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.
The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
