Quotes About Knowledge

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

I am actually a very good cook (if I may say so myself). I just don't know that many recipes.

I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

If we understand the past, we are more likely to recognise what is happening around us.

I'd love to have my achievements recognised and for people to know enough about cycling to understand what my achievements mean.

Among players, coaches, people who know football, yes I feel I get recognition.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

Part of being really objective about your trade, your music, or your art is recognizing that you might not know everything about it.

One can never be sure whether a very early memory is a real memory or just the recollection of something which you were told happened.

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Sometimes my readers ask me what else they should read, and I recommend Sebald.

When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

Some of my best book recommendations have come from booksellers.

My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.