Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped. Devdutt Pattanaik bodyknowledgemythology Change image and share on social
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in and it got passed, and he was the conservative and the southerner. So sometimes in politics, to get something done, it takes a special kind of knowledge and a special kind of person, but it doesn't always follow the party lines. Jim Brown bigbillcivil share on social
Doubt grows with knowledge. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe doubtgrowknowledge Change image and share on social
Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive. F. H. Bradley adamarriveconceive Change image and share on social
Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. John Perry Barlow happenhermeticknowledge Change image and share on social
Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated. Pankaj Mishra beingcompartmentaliseconceal share on social
Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. Lewis Thomas agoatlantaaudience share on social
The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. John Redwood casefearforce Change image and share on social
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. Conrad Black amalgamfaithheresy share on social
The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. Joseph Franklin Rutherford bringdevelopmentearth Change image and share on social