Quotes About Knowledge

I was a political science student.

I'm not speaking as someone who has reached satori or anything else. I'm a student.

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.

I just consider myself a student, trying to learn more about it.

I'm still a novice student.

I've always loved being a student.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

I'll always be a student. I learn by doing.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge. That's fine.

I was a decent student but not a great student.

Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.

All students can learn.

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you're lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you're playing, I'd say, 'It's obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.'

I don't understand why we learn what we do for most of it is of no use to us in our careers. To get a grade, students learn just about everything and later none of this is relevant. Grades become more important than learning.

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

I tell my students that if you have enough preparation, you can handle the big interviews. You won't be intimidated.