Quotes About Knowledge

It's a disadvantage when there is not enough footage of an opponent.

I learned a lot with Andre Villas-Boas at Porto. He is very intelligent tactically. He was almost so well informed about the opponents that we pretty much knew everything about them when we went out on to the pitch. It was scary how much we knew.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

We should not be a party that is opposed to science.

I had no intention of ever doing voice-overs. I wasn't opposed to them; I just didn't have any particular knowledge of how or why people do that.

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

You would be amazed what the ordinary guy knows.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need.

There is no original truth, only original error.

I am your original autodidact.

Knowing what you're up against is part of the strength of writing something that is even, I guess, considered halfway original, knowing what's out there to begin with.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.