As a physician I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

My whole life I had been taught to read and study to seek understanding in knowledge of history of cultures.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity value and worth.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance but someone else may not know about it.

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.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Even though I'm a hype man myself I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money not necessarily raise it.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me a big part of it is information knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions such as London and Cambridge and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef once you have that basis that's when cuisine is truly exciting.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Without self knowledge without understanding the working and functions of his machine man cannot be free he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

This life that has been given to us as a gift as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it really try to recognize it is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.