Quotes About Knowledge

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Reading musses up my mind.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

But revealing yourself as ignorant apparently gives one extraordinary credibility on the left.

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.