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Knowledge

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! – Hal Sparks

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. – Paul Nurse

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? – Tom Clancy

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. – Huston Smith

Fine art is knowledge made visible. – Gustave Courbet

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. – Herbert Simon

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. – William Shenstone

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. – Kenneth L. Pike

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. – John McCarthy

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. – Claude Bernard

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. – John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. – Judy Holliday

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say. – Barbara McClintock

I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place. – Ezra Miller

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. – Luther Burbank

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. – Freda Adler

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad