Quotes About Knowledge

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

As I traveled the world over, I traveled everywhere, and I learned so much.

I'm definitely a jaded traveler, but you try to make the best of what you know about the experience. Like, I know how to pack a bag. I know that checking a bag is for rookies.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

I have travelled enough internationally to know and accept the reality that, overwhelmingly, people are well disposed to Australia but in truth know very little about it. In particular, people know hardly anything about Australian politics.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.

I love reading. I spend a huge amount of time travelling on planes and have always got a book on the go.

He that travels much knows much.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

I have a mini-library at home and I have begun reading books I'd purchased during my travels.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.

'Ghost Adventures,' 'Mountain Monsters,' weird alien UFO shows like 'Ancient Aliens.' The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

It's always a treat for me to go to the British Library.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.

Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.