Quotes About Knowledge

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

Usually companies hire me, and they know full well who I am, and that's one of the reasons they want to hire me.

I know what I know and I also know what I don't know, and I make sure I hire the right people who can teach me.

As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

My favorite thing is talking to people about history - that's what I like doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

Without the knowledge of music, it would be very hard to write film music. There are so many films, and each one has a different historical background and everything.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

As far as reading is concerned, I like historical and political books and works of art.

I had access to books, and I could read... but that more foundational, basic historical awareness, I didn't have any of that.

I love being educated by historical novels.

Never, ever forget history.

I don't know much about history.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

I read more history books than anything else.

I read science books, chemistry books, history books. I read that stuff for fun.