Quotes About Knowledge

You wouldn't think it would make a ton of sense, but I've been on Jeopardy! for over 20 years now, so it's kind of like going home.

It is certain that the truth of the Christian faith becomes more evident the more the faith itself is known. Therefore, the doctrine should not only be in Latin but also in the common tongue, and as the faith of the Church is contained in the Scriptures, the more these are known in the true sense, the better.

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

I want to know everything there is to know about Lewis and Clark. And I want to do the Sunday crossword in less than an hour. I want to be the best dad in the world. I want to play Richard II, and I want to win another Tony award.

To read too many books is harmful.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought too late.

A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.

Too many people go to university.

There are not too many people who are polymathic these days.

I've got my own philosophy. People who write books have different philosophies. You read too many people and you get screwed up.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.

Economists tend to think they are much, much smarter than historians, than everybody. And this is a bit too much because at the end of the day, we don't know very much in economics.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.

I love books. Probably too much for my own good.