Quotes About Knowledge

The education system should teach us about money; it's an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don't have the first clue of what they should do about money.

College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

Nobody has the time to sit down and explain the first world from first principles.

The audience might not be the size of Facebook, but how much time can you spend online and think, 'What did I just learn?

Stanislavski was right, you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.

Take some time and educate your mind, in the long run I'm sure you're fine.

As soon as you understand 2 x 4 you can't believe there was a time when you didn't understand it.

On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I often think of that when I hear people say that they haven't time to read.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.