Quotes About Knowledge

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

My mom was really of the belief that, as long as you were reading anything, it was okay. Just read.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

I have a biology degree, okay?

I would fain grow old learning many things.

I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.

I have this obsession with really cool, old books.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.

I've had more life experiences than most people that are older than me.

You know how when you get older you actually want to learn? When I went to college, I wasn't as interested in the art history classes as I am now.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

I like older people; I think older people have a lot of flavor.

I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the age of seven, I was reading 100 books a year.