Quotes About Knowledge

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

One thing I am determined on is that by the time I die my brain shall weigh as much as a man's if study and learning can make it so.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

L'adolescence est le seul temps o u' l'on ait appris quelque chose. Adolescence is the only time when we can learn something.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

I've been an advocate for public education for a long time. It's the way people are able to improve their lives.

I had a really good time on the show [Sisterhood of Hip Hop]. Most of all, what I've learned is I need to share what it is that I know.

Do not discuss the religious matters with people; do not waste your valuable time to discuss the untruth! Your time is short; spend it for the science and the art!

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

Where can an interrogation lead us which does not follow reason in its horizontal course, but seeks to retrace in time that constant vertically which confronts European culture with what it is not?

It requires a long time to know anyone.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes.

How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?" "They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain't got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.