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Quotes About Knowledge

Secrecy in science does not work. Withholding information does more damage to us than to our competitors.
~ Edward Teller
When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.
~ Garry Kasparov
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.
~ Brian Redman
Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
~ Vera Wang
To make a man happy, fill his hands with work, his heart with affection, his mind with purpose, his memory with useful knowledge, his future with hope, and his stomach with food.
~ Frederick E. Crane
The most important knowledge teachers need to do good work is a knowledge of how students are experiencing learning and perceiving their teacher's actions.
~ Stephen Brookfield
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science
~ Franz Boas
Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.
~ Lawrence Weiner
An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
~ Socrates
The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.
~ A. R. Rahman
Read, read, read, read, read. Read everything. You can't work unless you know the world, and outside of living in the world the best way to learn about the world is to read about it.
~ John Goodman
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.
~ Paul Washer
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
~ Wilhelm Reich
There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik
People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
~ Young Jeezy
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
~ Henry Ford
The aim of scientific work is truth. While we internally recognise something as true, we judge, and while we utter judgements, we assert.
~ Gottlob Frege
Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.
~ Anson Jones
Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I believe that the road to pre-eminent success in any line of work is to make yourself master of that line of work.
~ Andrew Carnegie
You can never learn less; you can only learn more.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
~ Laurence Olivier
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
~ Benjamin Disraeli