Quotes About Knowledge

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

Much like Warren Buffett has said very famously - he doesn't buy technology stocks because he doesn't understand them- I will not buy consumer goods companies because I do not understand them.

If you go back to the '80s, I didn't really know much about the characters. I knew what they did in the ring. I knew Hogan went off and spouted lots of crazy promos, and Ultimate Warrior did the same. They really were just characters.

I learned more on 'Spirit Warriors' than I think I have on any other job.

Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.

The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

I've been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. I'm 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.

I know stuff about 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars,' but 'Star Trek,' I don't know.

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

I do love 'Star Wars,' although I'm not one of those crazy fans who knows everything about everyone.

Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama.

I do love history. I loved learning about wars and things in school.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?

Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need not comprise taking and killing, but could consist of our mutual conquest of ignorance and distrust.

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.

All the important parts, yes," I said firmly. "Maybe not all the eccentric details. Ask, and I will answer. What do you want to know?" "Everything." He had been leaning on his elbows, but he pushed back now and gripped the balustrade with both hands. "It's always this way with me: if it can be known, I want to know it.

If it can be known, I want to know it.