Quotes About Knowledge

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.

The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

Nothing would make me happier if people got curious enough to actually go online to and start looking and researching the Apollo 1 fire... That would be amazing to me if people would actually go through the trouble to figure that stuff out.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

The trouble is that after nine years as a Jack of all trades and Master of the Dominican Order, I have no expertise on anything except airports and exotic foods.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.

The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.

I was allowed to believe things that weren't true and I would ask questions about them and talk about them.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

It's not the music you hear in your head that other people are going to hear. You have to be able to make it true enough to the image in your head, and that's where technique and technology come in, for sure, and knowledge. It's not true and will never be true that someone who knows nothing can sit in a basement and make great music.

All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.