Quotes About Knowledge

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Without knowing your own history, you are doomed to repeat it.

I think the things that I learned that stick with me are things you often repeat, even today, which is never stop learning.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.

You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

I feel like every repetition, every game, every practice that I'm allowed to watch, I'm picking up some small piece of information, a nuance about the game or a coach's philosophy.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

If you read books forever and ever, they will never replace what really counts - that's practical experience.

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.

In America, we've replaced science with experts.

Facts cannot be replaced by opinion.

There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'

I know so much about Los Angeles. I grew up here, I was born here, I loved it, and I reported on it.

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.

I'm a reporter by nature, I want to know everything.

My job as a reporter is not to know what I think.

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar.

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better.

It seems to me if you don't know anything about child development you shouldn't intimate in your 'reporting' that you do.