Quotes About Knowledge

Experience was the most painful of teachers.

Si uno va a sentarse sobre la lápida de alguien, al menos debe saber algo sobre ellos, ¿no?

Here's what else I've learned: Age doesn't guarantee wisdom, any more than age guarantees intelligence.

What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it.

But wisdom means more than being intelligent, because it encompasses understanding, empathy, experience, inner peace, and intuition, and

For with knowledge comes pain. To limit the pain I limit my answers.

I know that's not a popular notion—don't we frequently regard our elders as wise partially because they're gray and wrinkled?—but lately I've come to believe that some people are born with the capacity to become wise while others aren't, and in some people, wisdom seems to be evident even at a young age. My

It's what you do every time. You isolate what you know, and you create a mental image of what you're doing. Every time you speak you don't have to think about it. Words come out of your mouth based on what you know. That's the same job every time.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.

I really believe that people don't have to eat healthy; they just have to know what they are eating, and then they'll eat better. That is really the movement we are behind.

I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like that, hundreds of books about different art movements - the symbolists, the dadaists, the Pre-Raphaelites, the impressionists - you know, that I consult before I start every movie.

Where a new guy may only know one or two ways to do something, I know all of the moves, and I've forgotten more stuff than the newer guys might even know.

There aren't enough people out there that are becoming experts in technology as technology moves.

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.

Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.

I fervently believe that education is the key to moving forward.

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

I didn't know much about golf growing up.

I didn't pay as much attention in school as I would have liked to.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.