Quotes About Knowledge

I know Steve Kerr well and his basketball IQ is really high. He knows everything about basketball.

I'm not comparing myself with anyone, but I am very confident about my captaincy, as I have already led India and in the IPL also. I have confidence I can bring out each player's ability fully and also give them a lot of confidence... I would like to stick to what I know best and what I have confidence in.

I stick with what I know, makeup-wise.

And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

I know sound, and this is what I'm going to stick to: what I know.

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It's not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, 'I'm tough.'

I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in your brain and seeming true when you go to retrieve it years later.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

I want to explore for myself and keep an open mind. There is a stigma of being a flat earther and if I'm going to do it I want to know the facts.

I am still learning.

We can spend Rs 5,000 for a meal at the Taj and thousands on all kinds of shopping, but we're always stingy about books. We always think of borrowing. Why? Writers can use some support. If you have space and money, you should buy your own books.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

Buying only what you know can end in disaster. Just think about Enron's employees and business partners, the 'locals' who bought lots of its stock because they thought they were in the know.

We're like the stock exchange - we know everything that's happening in the family. Since our kids are in the same profession, we all know how they're placed.

In 1992, I was in school. I did hear about Harshad Mehta and one of my cousins lost some money in the stock market, but I knew little about it.

My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening and discuss about the stock market.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

I have no idea what stocks I held in the '90s, in the 2000s, or even now.

Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.

If you ask me who the members of the Rolling Stones or Led Zep or the Clash were, I'd be able to tell you every member. But I couldn't name a single member of Arctic Monkeys.

Certainly no university president, at least to my knowledge, has ever stood up and said 'this land is unceded, meaning it's not ours, so we're going to give some of it back.'

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.