This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

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

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you what exists on the land and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

The greater the step forward in knowledge the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

If you desire information on some point of law you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek by your own unaided efforts.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends curiously enough on the direction of the wind.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

Books minister to our knowledge to our guidance and to our delight by their truth their uprightness and their art.

Real knowledge like everything else of value is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for studied for thought for and more that all must be prayed for.

To my knowledge I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.