Quotes About Knowledge

In the ultimate pursuit of knowledge, you can easily become ignorant.

She had learned that somewhere and stockpiled it in the back brain closet, the same closet where she stored information about Daryl Hannah being in Splash and Esperanza Diaz being the wrestler dubbed Little Pocahontas, the same closet that helped make Grace, in Jack's words, "Mistress of the Useless Factoid.

aren't ready to be specific." Tia said, "Adam wouldn't steal Mike's prescription pads. He knows better." Hester just gave her flat eyes. Tia realized how naïve her protestations sounded. "You

You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.

The stupidest men are the ones who think they can't be wrong. The stupidest men are the ones who are most sure. The stupidest men are the ones who don't know what they don't know. But

Being flooded with information doesn't mean we have the right information or that we're in touch with the right people.

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need.

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs, but the process of science.

I love 'Mastermind'. It's touching that people spend so much time learning. I do have quite good general knowledge, but I wouldn't consider going on the show. I also like watching 'Only Connect.'

Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.

I was always really smart in school. My whole family is smart. We have 'Jeopardy' challenges and have Scrabble tournaments.

With more Asian players on the tennis circuit, there's more awareness about tennis and knowledge about various tennis tournaments.

We have done so many tours and played for so many crowds. We know who we are.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.

I learned many things from Professor Brown, including his philosophy toward research, but there is one thing he said that I recall with particular clarity: 'Do research that will be in the textbooks.' It is not easy to do such work, but this has remained my motto.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics.

My grandmother bought me a set of Encyclopedia Britannica's when I was little, and I remember sitting on the floor reading through these just dreaming of all the possibilities. My mind would always go toward me becoming a nurse or a teacher because, even back then, I knew I wanted to do my part to make the world a richer place.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.