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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

Growing up in Nashville, especially in a music business family, means growing up with knowledge that seems like common sense until later in life when you realize people spend thousands of dollars a semester trying to learn or pretending to learn while looking for some intern job on music row.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

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

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there is a little inequity there about knowledge.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

There is no stopping the world tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

It is extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It is hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I have spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

You can only maintain your interest if you are travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.