Quotes About Knowledge

I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.

To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know, but I still love the adventure of going out and reporting on things I don't know about.

There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.

The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.

One thing you learn about doing nonfiction is that you've got to get it right, fact-check, do your research. You've got to not only get the facts right but represent the subject to the world in a way that insiders feel like it's an access port and outsiders can access it. If you're too insider, you block access to anyone else.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.

Education is all about making sure that the next generation know what our representatives think they should know.

Being an independent reporter with legal knowledge fits me better than being an attorney who is representing one side or one goal.

The first book I ever really read was Plato's 'Republic,' and then I had to go over that five times or something.

All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.

I've built a comedy brand for myself that is, one, really satisfying and fulfilling personally and, two, has been able to cultivate this young female audience that's hungry for knowledge, information, and entertainment.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

'A People's History of the United States' was actually a very big book for me. I read it in high school, and I felt like my mind was really blown by it. I think the truth is I read it because it's referenced in 'Good Will Hunting.'

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

Having had five husbands, I guess I should know a thing or two about marriage.

Herb Brown is like a basketball icon. What's the saying - he's forgotten more than I'll ever know.

My ideal is for each to do what he knows and what he can.

I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.

I love the ideals of my country. But I hate that we've been so denied any real knowledge of the world and don't have the education to think clearly, so we vote against our economic interest and believe in our most shallow first thoughts of fear and hatred.