This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity to the ultimate victory of knowledge peace good-will and understanding.
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
To express the same idea in still another way I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
I am conscious of my inability to grasp in all its details and positive developments any very large portion of human knowledge.
At each increase of knowledge as well as on the contrivance of every new tool human labour becomes abridged.
Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity and is the torch which illuminates the world.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.
This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media which is our culture. Professors of humanities with all their leftist fantasies have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.