Quotes About Knowledge

I'm not as naive as some people think.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

I love the way that girls turn up at our boutiques knowing all the names of the dresses, and that was happening before we launched our brand Pinterest board.

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

I kind of feel bad that I don't know the names of the people in Girls Aloud!

As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is the same way.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.

Everyone says I should write a natural history or landscape book because if I have an area of amateur expertise, it is in those things.

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

You need to cultivate love for books, it doesn't come to everyone naturally.

I'm a naturally curious person.

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

With powerful friends and knowledge of underhanded methods, former spooks were a step ahead in the struggle for property amid the wreckage of the Soviet state. Some provided security for leading businessmen. Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general, was hired by banker-turned-oilman Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Others, such as Alexander Lebedev, built business empires spanning from telecoms to textiles. A third group, which included Vladimir Putin, worked directly in the government.

The more she knew, the worse she'd worry.

What we call " revelations " is a correct term because the information or the idea is revealed to us. We downloaded it from Tao's bank of wisdom and information.

All new information comes from Tao. All old information came from Tao.

Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.