Quotes About Knowledge

The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don't think so.

I'm never ashamed to read a book twice or as many times as I want. We never expect to drink a glass of water just once in our lives. A book can be that essential, too.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don't want to be wrong. There's nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.

What's important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it.

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

If it's a question about stuff that matters to you personally, like favorite food, favorite piece of knowledge, favorite animal, it's hard not to have an opinion and want to quantify things.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

Look for the truth, it wants to be found.

I kind of want to know a little bit about everything.

Information wants to be free. Believe it.

When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund

You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.

Medical School is the next step in my career. There is no doubt about that. My mind is still hungry and I want to continue my education.

You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.

We live in a world in which everyone wants solutions. But we can't find solutions if we don't understand the problems, and we can't understand the problems without knowing how we got here.

Maybe I am naive about certain things. But I'm glad. I know all I want to know.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.