Thus in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself and the human sciences form an independent system.
The general knowledge of time on the island depends curiously enough on the direction of the wind.
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man with his powers of reason has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
I am drawn to women who are independent and creative which is problematic because it's a struggle a competition of careers. There's jealousy.
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
The security of the United States which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.
I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
If you are going to have to play defense all the time you cannot have the kind of ingenuity assertiveness independence and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
They seem much rarer now those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.