Quotes About Knowledge

Besides, information was like weaponry. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.

Michel Foucault.

Haven't you read all the studies about how being a good reader makes you a better person?" Hannah asks him. "I've only read the headlines," he says. She laughs. "Pitiful." "I think I'm doing okay

And? you're thinking. Spaghetti Bolognese?! you're thinking. What's that got to do with anything? Well, as my homeroom teacher Mr. Rourke would say, "read on Macduff," which is something to do with Shakespeare. See? You've learned something already!

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

We should remember that there was once a discipline called natural philosophy. Unfortunately, this discipline seems not to exist today. It has been renamed science, but science of today is in danger of losing much of the natural philosophy aspect.

Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

My mother wrote a book. Unfortunately, it ended up being published posthumously. But I'm glad she did, because it taught me a lot about my family that, otherwise, I probably wouldn't know.

When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.

I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

Unfortunately, I know very little about Indian cinema. I know we have Bollywood... But my knowledge about it is very little.

The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.

People don't tend to be unhappy in jobs doing something that they love, so I think it's important that those entering the world of work for the first time are given as much information as possible on how to get into the career that they want.

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Search without Google is like social networking without Facebook: unimaginable.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

School seemed unimportant, since I learned so much more on my own.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

I'm not an unintelligent individual.