Quotes About Knowledge

My undergraduate degree is in geography and sociology, so I had like no real training with words.

I thought that I knew the world pretty well. I mean this is what I do for a living, I've been in government or in the Navy Reserves for 13 years. I've got an undergraduate degree and a master's degree focused on that stuff so I would put myself on the what I thought was the more well educated end of the spectrum on these things.

I did do my undergraduate work in biology.

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know about. And it's actually a very empowering side of our history.

I learned a lot while working on 'Live From the Underground.'

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.

I don't think about a theory of everything when I do my research. And even if we knew the ultimate underlying theory, how are you going to explain the fact that we're sitting here? Solving string theory won't tell us how humanity was born.

I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.

In philosophy you're never 100% sure. You're always undermining what you think you know. That's always been my philosophy and my intellectual ethos.

Gail Kim has done so much and has so much knowledge. I think she's extremely underrated. She wants the product to be great and she doesn't mind taking the extra time to get it there. That is a really invaluable thing to me.

With 'Aurangzeb,' I just knew that the film wasn't going to work, though I think it was one of my most underrated performances. I did the film too early in my career, but I stand by it.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

What one fool can understand, another can.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Complex things, if you don't understand them, it seems complicated. If you understand them, and we know how to handle it, it became simple.

We only fear what we don't understand, and I hate to be scared.

There are people who have never been taught anything, and know everything, have never been anywhere, and understand everything, have never given a moment's thought to anything, and comprehend everything. 'Blessed hands' is the name bestowed on these fortunate beings. The world envies, honours and respects them.

Human beings understand too much.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.

We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.