Quotes About Knowledge

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I think my reaction to most issues is to get the facts and circumstances.

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has to be countered with knowledge and understanding.

All my life I have been the guy who always says, 'Oh I think I read a thing about that and you know it's actually true about that is yada yada.' The reaction that I got when I would do that from people when I did that was not always good.

It's the reaction I've gotten my whole life: that I learn something and try to tell people in conversation, but when I tell them, they are annoyed.

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters' reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything!

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I'm not a nerd, don't plan to be a nerd and read books - which I can't do at all.

No matter how busy I am, I find time to read, day and night.

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

Read in order to live.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart.

I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'

I had read Harold Bloom's 'Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?' Late in his life, having read everything, Bloom asked which books had given him wisdom. I had just read a bunch of contemporary novels that had no wisdom for me.

I know and do what is right better than many big men who read.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.