Quotes About Knowledge

I feel like not knowing Joe Torre is a hole in my New York experience.

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

I don't remember ever not knowing about acting.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

The sense of not knowing where I came from let me be as smart as I wanted to be.

I never felt it wasn't mine. But I was also very respectful of not knowing what I didn't know. Because the Marvel Cinematic Universe is very deep, and unless you live in it you can't possibly know it all.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.

In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

I wish I finished music school, because then I feel like I could talk more about the dissonant notes.

I'd like to think that my mentors, I've had the highest of education and one thing I've always noted, they were always writing stuff down, taking notes.

Black youth, in general, have no understanding of our past. Young black people who don't know who Martin Luther King Jr. was, don't know nothin'.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.

It's something I've noticed with my two children - children frequently know and don't know at the same time. They are aware of aspects of the world that are a little bit shadowy, and they choose not to engage with them.

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

I'm a big believer in the notion that to know where you are going, you have to know where everything has been.

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.