Quotes About Knowledge

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Accounting was the course that helped me more than anything.

More than anything, I write about what I know. The experiences that I've had in my life and that we've all had collectively, that's what we draw from.

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

When I go to the DVD shop, I mostly buy documentaries because you learn a lot from documentaries.

Investing is about intellectual honesty. You want to know what you know. You want to know, mostly, what you don't know.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them.

I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more.

Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

You want an audience. If you didn't, you wouldn't be a writer. The biggest motivation to write is the knowledge that someone will read it.

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified.

I know a little bit about motorcycles and motorcycle riding.

Necesitamos aprender de lo obvio, más que indagar en lo oculto. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

The promotion of self-esteem in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things — and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

The range of human knowledge and expertise is limited for any given person or for any manageably-sized collection of administrators. Only a certain number of links in the great chain of production and distribution can be mastered and operated efficiently by the same set of people. Beyond some point, there are other people with different skills and experience who can perform the next step in the sequence more cheaply or more effectively—

Articulation plays an important role in the dissemination of knowledge, as knowledge is conceived in the unconstrained vision.

The old are not really smarter than the young, in terms of sheer brainpower. It is just that we have already made the kinds of mistakes that the young are about to make, and we have already suffered the consequences that the young are going to suffer if they disregard the record of the past.

Intellect—even intellect that reaches the level of genius—is not the same as wisdom.