Quotes About Knowledge

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

Sometimes I think people confuse rote learning with traditional conceptual instruction.

I'm an expert in baseball and I don't even have a job. I'm an expert, more so than a lot of people out there. It should be my career until I'm dead. I should be one of the instructors. I think I've earned it.

I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.

I wanted to see how much of an insult it was to be called an ignoramus. I didn't know what it meant; I just Googled it.

If you have a chronic illness in America, there's a good chance you also hold a degree in Health Insurance 101, whether you want to or not.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Now is the era of intellect, information and the Internet.

I'm an intellectual.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

I write out of my intellectual experience.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Intellectual capital drives financial capital and growth.

I don't know much, but nor do I have the intellectual straitjacket that a lot of people inevitably pick up at university.

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries.

Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.

Every minute of every day, we should be challenging ourselves to grow intellectually and to stay curious about the world.

I realized we're all walking around asleep, intellectually comatose, dead to the facts.

I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.