Quotes About Knowledge

One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

We don't claim to be infallible. I don't claim to be giving you truths from on high.

Time and again, we have found the 'idle' truths arrived at through the process of inquiry to be of the greatest moment for practical human affairs.

The truth of good economic doctoring is to know the general principles, and to really know the specifics. To understand the context, and also, to understand that an economy may need some tender loving care, not just the so-called hard truths, if it's going to get by.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.

The first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

What I try to focus on is not to try to stop the march of technological progress. Instead, I try to run faster. If Amazon knows you better than you know yourself, then the game is up.

I'd try to become known as a world expert on 'something,' to take a small niche you can define.

I see myself as a student. Trying to learn everything.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

People are trying to be smart - all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

There are things to learn from people who have already done what you're trying to do.

My film knowledge is pretty shocking. I'm trying to correct that.

Everyone has an opinion about things they don't know much about. You just have to tune everybody out.

I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.

I'm the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.