Quotes About Knowledge

The main thing that prevents us from understanding the Bible aright is not a lack of hermeneutical skills but our sin. Our

It's all about what she knows and not who she is or where she comes from." As

Why read a book? If you read books you'd understand that question is like 'Why Breathe?

History has an imagination greater than any writer," said Serge.

new-and-improved, guilt-free Reality Ultra-Lite: all your beliefs with none of the facts.

And another item from the growing file of people who voluntarily wear dunce caps," said Serge. "You'll be talking cordially to someone and make an offhand reference, 'I recently read where—' and they'll cut you off and say, 'Oh, I don't read' . . . This is a tragedy on so many different levels. First, because they don't read, they don't know enough to keep it to themselves.

In Hermes' eyes Mankind's greatest error is that he has the power to know God and yet does not use it.

For the man of vision, all things are good, even if they appear evil to others. When men devise mischief against him, he sees it in the light of his knowledge of Atum, and he — and only he — transforms evil into Goodness.

Reading is weightlifting for the brain

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

Without any physical, chemical, and biological fundamentals, and with equally poor understanding of basic economic forces, it is no wonder that people will believe anything.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor.

People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all; they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.

I've been nominated for Academy Awards, I know what I'm doing.

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

Non-fiction books have helped me enormously with lots of my books.