Quotes About Knowledge

I saw the pilot, you know, because you have to have some knowledge of the piece that you are in, but I never saw an episode of 'Lost.'

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of us. These were great naturalists; people I would admire for their knowledge of natural science given the time.

I know how to lay a copper pipe and PVC. And I was forklift certified.

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything.

It's easier to write about what you know. I wouldn't write about a Wall Street broker, for example.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, and also was a very forceful personality, had a very good relationship with the president, and was in a very different place, for example, than Ben Bernanke, who is an academic, quiet guy: spent most of his time thinking about monetary policy.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

I often stumble upon new stories when I am wandering on the roads in search of information.

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.

Everything has technique to it. So if there's something you wanna try out, I think it's always good to get a trainer or listen to people who know what they're doing.

I just wanna learn and I wanna grow. I wanna consume as much information as possible. I wanna be great.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

If you wanna write non-fiction you have to be interested in the world.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.