Quotes About Knowledge

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

It's a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

If we choose to ignore science and refuse to fund important scientific research, we voluntarily cede our place as a world leader in innovation.

CISPA permits, but does not require, entities that have been attacked to voluntarily share their knowledge of a cyber threat with each other and with government.

My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

Managers are already voracious consumers of theory. Every time they make a decision or take action, it's based on some theory that leads them to believe that action will lead to the right result. The problem is, most managers aren't aware of the theories they're using, and they often use the wrong theories for the situation.

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers, seeking knowledge. I learn a lot from discussions with my wife, siblings and parents.

I've always been a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I have been a voracious reader.

I'm a voracious reader.

What business do we have telling people who to vote for? They probably know more about it than we do.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

You have to be educated to vote.

It is good, it is better to be voted by the players - they know everything about football.

I thought that the administration needed bipartisan support, and I was for our commander-in-chief. Because I felt at that time it was the right thing do. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never voted for the war.

There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.