Famous quotes containing the words prior, knowledge and/or function:
“Euphelia serves to grace my measure,
But Chloe is my real flame.”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)
“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)