Quotes About Knowledge

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Half of my library are old books because I like seeing how people thought about their world at their time. So that I don't get bigheaded about something we just discovered and I can be humble about where we might go next. Because you can see who got stuff right and most of the people who got stuff wrong.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

A stupid person is someone who has the facts, who has the proper information, and still makes the wrong decision.

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

There will never be a right or wrong way to cook something, but there will always be a more informed way.

The society will have good children, if the mothers are good. If the mothers lack sense and knowledge, the children may go the wrong way.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

I never fantasized or invented a thing, not one thing. I knew every single thing I ever wrote about.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

The Wonderful pistachios campaign is a great example - I don't involve myself with a project I don't feel passionate about. I could talk your ear off about internal statistics for WWE and what we have planned for the future. Why do I know that stuff? Because I like to do all that stuff.

I went through ups and downs in this business and in life, and when I was released by WWE in 2014, I knew I had a wealth of knowledge and an opportunity.