Quotes About Knowledge

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.

As you get older, you're just smarter.

Knicks fans are the smartest in the world and they know you can't just play one end of the court.

My dad is one of the smartest guys I know.

At a certain career level, it's no longer about whether you are the smartest subject-matter expert in the room.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

The more comprehensive your language is, the more likely people are to believe everything you're saying. It really just comes from the power of knowing you're the smartest person in the room, and if you aren't, you're definitely going to sound like it.

The smartest guys are the best broadcasters.

I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.

My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they'd have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I'd create an album that felt like a series.

Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I'm totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.

I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge.

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'

I love the Smithsonian. I'm a real dork for that kind of stuff.

I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.

The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

I was 25 myself once. I also thought I knew everything. I also thought that I could give singers singing advice and comics comedy advice. When you're that age, you know it all, so I understand it. But when you're tired and you don't have patience for it, you definitely snap.

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

I'm an information junkie, and I don't mean that in snobby way. I'm not talking about world information. I just like to know what's going on, especially pop-culturally. It interests me.

There are so many different ways in which someone is 'intelligent.' In my opinion this doesn't always have to be measured by academic achievement.

While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was fatal to so many people, they finally dropped it from judo.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

My mom and brother are both doctors, and it seems crazy that so many people think science is a mutable idea.