Quotes About Knowledge

'Fahrenheit 451' postulates a lot of things I didn't want to have happen.

I am always anxious to know what has happened while I've been asleep.

Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

A male can be a boy, a man, a love/husband, a father, a grandfather, a great-grandfather, but they don't have any knowledge what's happening inside a woman's body. That's what I had learnt in my early married life.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

Going through economic hard times is something I know firsthand.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

People have the right to know the drugs they are taking will make them better instead of harming them.

Almost nothing anyone told me about Harvard has been accurate.

I got more out of the farm than Harvard Business School.

Sometimes you have Harvard undergraduates who stun you with the depth of their knowledge. That is why it is great to be at a university like this.

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

I just hated school. I don't like to learn. Don't teach me anything!

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

We can have fun speculating about why things are the way they are but don't look to science to provide any answers.

Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be 'not personally.'

I dropped out of college in Hawaii just because I thought school was for losers. But school's really important.

Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

The director needs to have a vision and clarity in his mind. It's not enough to know the story, he or she should have the knowledge and efficiency to execute it articulately.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.

My background is in health care.