There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.

I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that I'd be so happy.

Argument is conclusive but it does not remove doubt so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

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.

Although your knowledge is weak and small you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

If they exert it not for good they will for evil if they advance not knowledge they will perpetuate ignorance.

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

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer preferably a scientifically trained observer provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.