Quotes About Knowledge

I didn't know what the word 'genre' meant till I was twenty years old.

If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.

Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions.

Many business intuitions and expertise are going to be valuable; they are telling you something useful, and you want to take advantage of them.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

If you are interested in a form of science or interested in a particular kind of business or whatever - or if you want to be a writer, there's so much information out there, it's almost too much.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

People love learning new things and you need to understand they want to learn it as easy as possible.

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.

He's just another man who wants to teach me something.

The philosopher is someone who doesn't know, but who wants to find out.

Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

First get rid of the delusion "I am the body," then only will we want real knowledge.

When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.