Quotes About Knowledge

I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

While open-access journals have grown rapidly, researchers still have to read the paywalled articles in commercial journals.

I love researching, I love interviewing.

All my books take a long time to research. I spend several months researching before I start writing, and in the middle of writing I often have to stop and look up stuff. At my local library, I am one of the best customers! The research takes several months.

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

I like historical things; I like researching things.

I enjoy the act of research. I'm researching as a means to an end, but I literally just enjoy reading about how people lived in the past and understanding it better.

One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.

I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.

When you're first starting on a project, you feel shy because you don't know very much, and you know that you're going to be ignorant and seem ignorant.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

My dad was very much a Pan-Africanist and instilled in me and my siblings a want for that knowledge.

I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life.

I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.

I feel quite confident that audiences on both sides of the Atlantic are growing 'dumber,' if what you really mean to say is 'less culturally literate.'

We live in interesting times. Information overload can make it difficult to sift fact from fiction.

I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.