Quotes About Knowledge

I read a couple of books a week. About 80 percent of what I read is contemporary literature for adults. The other 20 percent is made up of non-fiction and children's books.

I'm a big fan of non-fiction, and I am a believer that fact is much more exciting than fiction.

Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.

I love all kinds of books, which include fiction and non-fiction.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.

The thing I always tell my writing students - I'm not a full-time instructor, by any means, but periodically I've taught writing students - what I always tell them is that the most important thing in narrative nonfiction is that you not only have to have all the research; you have to have about 100% more than you need.

I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

That's one of the great things about being an actor. You get to learn all these things normal people don't get to learn.

There's a network of top doctors that normal people don't know about.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

I always tell people that, just to be a bad jazz musician, you have to be better than most musicians. The worst jazz musicians are normally better than most musicians, because you have to know so much.

There's nothing wrong with furthering education and working your brain in a different way than you normally work it.

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I'm not interested in on-the-job learning or on-the-job training.

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.