Quotes About Knowledge

I never could read science fiction. I was just uninterested in it. And you know, I don't like to read novels where the hero just goes beyond what I think could exist. And it doesn't interest me because I'm not learning anything about something I'll actually have to deal with.

Bureaucrats want you to think that the system is too complex because they want you to be stupid about it and uninterested in it. They work very hard to create as many levels as possible away from the simplistic government our Founding Fathers formed for one simple reason: they don't want you to know what they are doing.

When I think about unique insight, what I think about is here's your opportunity to tell me something that I don't know.

As a former Assistant Secretary of State, Senior Director on the National Security Council, and Washington Director for Human Rights Watch, I hope to bring unique experience and knowledge to the Foreign Affairs Committee.

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science - that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

No one would argue that it's in the United States' interest to have independent knowledge of the plans and intentions of foreign countries. But we need to think about where to draw the line on these kind of operations so we're not always attacking our allies, the people we trust, the people we need to rely on, and to have them in turn rely on us.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don't know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

Chains do more than bargain down prices from suppliers or divide fixed costs across a lot of units. They rapidly spread economic discovery - the scarce and costly knowledge of what retail concepts and operational innovations actually work.

Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

All the information in the world has been pretty dispersed, but Google's mission has been to organize it and make it universally accessible.