Quotes About Knowledge

The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don't think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

For years, my dad's friend Joe was just my dad's friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

The only thing is, with me - this may sound weird - there are a lot of R&B singers from that era that I actually don't know. Like, I never grew up on Boyz II Men.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.

The humblest person in this world is the astrophysicist. Because we are face to face with our ignorance every single day.

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

There are other people who think they know everything and it goes back to the same formula, but I'm not with them. I'm not the same as everyone else and every single day I'm writing a new page in history.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

My main interest is the problem of the singularity. If we can't understand what happened at the singularity we came out of, then we don't seem to have any understanding of the laws of particle physics. I'd be very happy just to understand the last singularity and leave the other ones to future generations.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

When you sit at the feet of an elder, it changes you.

When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.