Pastoral Resources

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.