Inherited Knowledge Quotes

#1. We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Erwin Schrodinger

#2. Scientific knowledge is advanced by the systematic criticism and purging of what currently passes for knowledge, so in religion too we need to criticize and expel all the illusory and dysfunctional religious material we have inherited.

Don Cupitt

#3. If you will be cherished when you are old, be courteous while you be young.

John Lyly

#4. Art, like love, moves the heart in unexpected directions.

Marty Rubin

#5. There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

John Edwards

#6. [Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.

Clifford Geertz

#7. This man did not know cold. Possibly, all the generations of his ancestry had been ignorant of cold, of real cold, of cold 107 degrees below freezing point. But the dog knew; all its ancestry knew, and it had inherited the knowledge.

Jack London

#8. I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Fred Astaire

#9. To cherish and learn from the past is to enrich our lives.

Fennel Hudson

#10. Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.

Martial

#11. The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

Robert Stawell Ball

#12. He had rid my inherited house of a lustful ghost, opened my eyes to a concealed world of strange forces and arcane knowledge, and buggered me twice.

K.J. Charles

#13. Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father's intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.

Frances Hardinge

#14. There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

Robert Breault

#15. There's much sentiment and educational value to be found in our inherited traditions.

Fennel Hudson