Quotes About Knowledge

I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.

I actually had to learn what an Oscar was.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kids couldn't.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

The end of all knowledge should be service to others.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Everyone without extraordinary research skills ought to be able to know what is happening inside the government, how it operates, where their tax dollars are going. Then they can make better decisions in the electoral process.

I'm old fashioned. I'm not one of these young guys who think they are so smart that they can prescribe what humanity ought to do. Humanity never learns any lessons. Prescriptions don't matter. We already know exactly what to do. We just don't do it.

What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

I think within our music there is a real strong idea of search, search for identity, search for place, search for time, search for love, search for knowledge.

We get first-rate faculty members from the leading engineering and science institutes to train our people.

Investment in our people through education, no matter at what level, is an investment in economic development.

The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

During our time, we used to go to school at the age of six.

There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don't know anything about, and when I learn about them they're always fascinating.

To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with.

Every artist can make art only from the materials at hand, and many of the child stars who try to mature into artists can make art only from their knowledge - and ours - that they were child stars.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.