Quotes About Knowledge

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

My business partner Robert De Niro knows a lot about hotels; he opened the Greenwich Hotel in New York City.

I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'

I wrote a lot about Cheney in 'The New Yorker,' but I wrote very little of what I know. The only time I ever mentioned what he ever said at a meeting was when there were many people there who were not insiders, you know, other people not in the government, so my sources would be protected.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

There's a difference between being ignorant and being stupid... For me, an ignorant person is someone who makes the wrong decision or a bad choice because he or she does not have the proper facts. If you give that person the facts and the proper information you have alleviated that ignorance, and they make the right decision.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don't, shame on you, go do some research.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

It is only the young and callow and ignorant that admire rashness. Think before you speak. Know your subject.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

How often do you see young actors playing scholars? Or striving to be intellectuals, you know? It's not that often.

I'm baffled when young actors aren't familiar with current film, television and theater, or aren't interested in older films or plays and the history of the craft in general. If you don't know what's out there, and what came before, then how can you picture yourself working, and how can anyone else?

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews, and so I'm aware of what's out there. But I tend not to read the books.

As a child and young adult, I delighted in being able to identify almost any wild plant or animal.

I knew that the most important thing a man has is in his head, and from a young age, I often studied the head structure of each person, hoping to crack his codes. I considered a high forehead a gift from God.