Background Knowledge

Famous quotes containing the words background and/or knowledge:

“In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)