Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chamfort

Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last

Michael Klim

People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.

Luigi Pirandello

Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences

Maurice Cheeks

Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bertrand Russell

Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

Bertrand Russell

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Bertrand Russell

History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.

Bertrand Russell

All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Scott Norton

Reasonable' probably doesn't mean if you were out a whole semester you make up a whole semester.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Steve Sparks

Patrick's a little embarrassed by the signs. But it shows what his being at UK has meant to our community.

John Street

People have to go vote. Polls don't mean a thing,

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Marcus Giles

That'd be cool, ... and it'd mean one of us is going to the World Series.

Bill Bryson

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.

Bryant H. McGill

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for a reason!

Orson Scott Card

Madness, and then illumination.

David Ogilvy

We all have a tendency to use research as a drunkard uses a lamppost - for support, but not for illumination

David Ogilvy

I notice increasing reluctance on the part of marketing executives to use judgment; they are coming to rely too much on research, and they use it as a drunkard uses a lamp post for support, rather than for illumination.

Ludwig von Mises

One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

Anais Nin

Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension. But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living.

Andrew Lang

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Charles Caleb Colton

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.