Quotes About Knowledge

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that.

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don't know. That's your probability edge.

I know the ropes of this industry, and I also know how unpredictable it can be.

The world is becoming increasingly changeable and unpredictable, so why should education make the knowledge being passed on so finite and certain; why divide all of it into measurable units?

It sounds like a brag but I've got a separate room in my flat just for unread books; I don't let my read books touch my unread books.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

I think you should allow your kid to know and watch what is dangerous instead of keeping them away from it. Otherwise, how will she or he know that it is unsafe?

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.

One of the reasons I like to teach is that I like to pass things on. That's an unspoken law of show business.

One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it.

Science is not finished until it is communicated.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.