Quotes About Knowledge

Knowing lots of answers but being a millisecond slow on the buzzer is indeed very frustrating.

I turned 65 last year, and each year I get more and more interested in human health. For most people it happens around age 50, but I've always been a slow learner. It's critical in terms of the cost of health care.

How quick are we to learn: that is, to imitate what others have done or thought before. And how slow to understand: that is, to see the deeper connections.

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

The best and safest method of philosophizing seems to be first to inquire diligently into the properties of things, and establishing those properties by experiments, and then to proceed more slowly to hypotheses for the explanation of them.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.

Slowly, over time, I learned enough that I started considering myself a musician, where I actually knew how to play instruments. But still, when I talk to my real musician friends, they're calling chords out, and I have no idea what they're talking about.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.

Trump, despite his shallow depth of biblical knowledge, plays into both the apocalyptic end-time fears of evangelicals and their nostalgia for a 'small town' America.

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

Just because I don't have a college degree doesn't mean I am not smart!

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

Everybody can be smart.

I'm not smart enough and I don't know enough about what's going on.

I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.

Remember to be as smart as you are.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

I feel like I'm not smart enough to answer the questions I'm asked.