Quotes About Knowledge

Do you have to be like a second-grade dropout to be an umpire? Did you go to school until you were 8 years old? I think you quit school before you were 10. Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

'Galaxy Quest' was cool to work on. When I first signed on, I really didn't know anything about it. I read the script, which I though was cool, but it wasn't until I saw the designs for the CG stuff that I knew it was going to be pretty sweet.

You don't really know much until you get to be 70.

You can be a great researcher, and you can think you have great ideas, but until you're forced to talk to a potential customer, you never really know.

The idea of finding things out, I hope that will stay with me until I drop.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

After a long, impartial enquiry of the truth, and after much and earnest calling upon God, to give unto me the spirit and revelation in the knowledge of Him, I find myself obliged, both by the principles of reason and Scripture, to embrace the opinion I now hold forth.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Know everything about the companies and people you are going to be negotiating with. Insist on getting the names of everyone participating in the negotiations. Leave no stone unturned; find out as much as you can.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community.

Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the world.' And it is true; books have invited me into different countries, states of mind, social conditions and historical epochs; they have offered me a place at the most unusual gatherings.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Networking has been cited as the number one unwritten rule of success in business. Who you know really impacts what you know.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

The danger that we have right now are people who get the same information as I do and, therefore, think they'll reach the same conclusions that haven't traded as long, don't have bear claws up and down their backs like I do.

The year 2000, I was the richest for three days. So I know up and down.