Top 1200 Historical Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I mean, Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure — that's a verifiable fact.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

I think a lot of times, the historical piece is often a way to comment on the present.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.

The central problem of management is how spontaneous interaction of people within a firm, each possessing only bits of knowledge, can bring about the competitive success that could only be achieved by the deliberate direction of a senior management that possesses the combined knowledge of all employees and contractors

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it.

What can realistically be done depends on the historical moment. The same is true with regard to the agents.

I think that historical processes have meaning and that we have to accept this - or else face utter despair.

Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.

It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to be, for the identities that are in the process of construction, without taking into consideration the conditions in which they are living and the importance of the knowledge derived from life experience, which they bring with them to school. I can in no way underestimate such knowledge. Or what is worse, ridicule it.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity.

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

Unlike a state, a writer cannot plead the historical necessity of his actions.

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

God doesn't help. I think that's a knockdown argument. I think that it really shows that whatever moral knowledge we have and whatever moral progress we make in our knowledge or whatever progress we make in our moral knowledge is not coming really from religion. It's coming from the very hard work really of moral philosophy, of trying to ground our moral reasonings.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

I accept the resurrection of Easter Sunday not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as a historical event.

I have been in the industry for five years and would love to play a historical character.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease, new machines based on brain function, further insights into our nature and how we know.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

One advantage of exhibiting a hierarchy of systems in this way is that it gives us some idea of the present gaps in both theoretical and empirical knowledge. Adequate theoretical models extend up to about the fourth level, and not much beyond. Empirical knowledge is deficient at practically all levels.

There comes a point in every story where you have got a reservoir of knowledge, and you are then really just adding the substantial new facts to your understanding of it. That is the easiest situation, because you can call on that reservoir, but when you get a sudden story out of nowhere, like ebola, you don't have a reservoir of knowledge.

Seek (beneficial) knowledge, because seeking it for the sake of Allaah is a worship. And knowing it makes you more God-fearing; and searching for it is jihad, teaching it to those who do not know is charity, reviewing and learning it more is like tasbeeh. Through knowledge Allaah will be known and worshiped.

If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Historical novels are hard to do for the general public for commercial writers like myself.

Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While that is undeniably true, its only partly true. What those advocates are forgetting is that knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.

I want to bring forth the historical significance of Sreerampur and turn it into a tourism hub.

Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is." My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

Me at parties: 'Like, do you want to know the historical context of the prophet Jeremiah?'