Quotes About Knowledge

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.

We owe it to our children to be honest about the world and to provide them with material written specially for them.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

To be honest, sometimes you have to know your rights.

To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

When you don't educate the people, you're crippling them. You are, you're not giving them ways to survive.

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

We've got to go back to the space station and back to the moon and Mars and beyond, because there is a lot of space out there and we know so little about it.

The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.

In today's world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.

People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

I had to read up on the Freemasons, about secret societies, and dip my toe into art history.

Stories bring us together. We can talk about them and bond over them. They are shared knowledge, shared legend, and shared history; often, they shape our shared future.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.

I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves of books about Tolkien and Middle-earth, and I was like, 'Holy cow, what else am I missing out on?'

So know yourselves first," she finished. "Then look back and account.

What was once the language of secrecy is now the language of power.

Prescient experts of biological codes.