Connaissance Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge [savoir] in general cannot be reduced to science, nor even to learning [connaissance]. Learning is the set of statements which, to the exclusion of all other statements, denote or describe objects and may be declared true or false. Science is a subset of learning. It is also composed of denotative statements, but imposes two supplementary conditions on their acceptability: the objects to which they refer must be available for repeated access, in other words, they must be accessible in explicit conditions of observation; and it must be possible to decide whether or not a given statement pertains to the language judged relevant by the experts. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

I'll tell you what leadership is. It's persuasion and conciliation, and education, and patience. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining — Wallace D. Wattles

beware of expectations. They ruin us. When we expect anything of anyone, we are asking them to fail. — D.L. Bogdan

The better and more persuasively you speak, the more you like yourself. The more you like yourself, the more optimistic and confident you are. The more you like yourself, the more positive and personable you are in your relationships with others. The more you like yourself, the healthier, happier, and more positive you become in everything you do. — Brian Tracy

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good. — Graham Greene

At first, the pinpricks felt like hot fly bites down the soft white skin over her spine and along her shoulders. The first time Rina flinched, the mage had admonished her harshly. She hadn't moved again. — Victor Gischler

Have a holly jolly Christmas! — Burl Ives

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete. — Joanne Harris

In order to fix the vocabulary, let us say that we will call knowledge-connaissance the system that allows desire and knowledge-savoir to be given a prior unity, reciprocal belonging, and co-naturalness. And we will call knowledge-savoir that which we have to drag from the interiority of knowledge-connaissance in order to rediscover in it the object of a willing, the end of a desire, the instrument of a domination, the stake of a struggle. — Michel Foucault

A man was taken to the Zoo and shown the giraffe. After gazing at it a little in silence: 'I don't believe it,' he said. — Dorothy L. Sayers

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise ... I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme. — Aimee Bender

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away. — Frederick Lenz

No, NAKED GUY'S the stupid one here, naked guy
NAKED GUY WENT AND MADE HULK ANGRY!! — Mark Millar

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? — Edward Abbey

A radio was playing quietly. Nobody was listening. It was there to drown out the silence. — Rachel Abbott