Quotes About Knowledge

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.

Great books conserve time.

I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

I believe that accurate knowledge is very, very important, but find that out in free time. Don't let it take over every hour of the day. Perhaps most important, talk about it.

I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

The things that I'm talking about not knowing, they're not mysteries of the universe; it's just stuff I thought I would know by the time I was thirty-nine.

a time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Teaching is learning. When you're teaching full-time you have to do research, stay current.

People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

I spent lots of time reading the encyclopedia and really kind of an eclectic approach to learning things - not very structured.

cookbooks, I found, are intended for people with time to cook - and, surprisingly often, for people who already know how to cook.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

And in my classes, I will talk most of the time, and you will listen most of the time. Because you may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.