Quotes About Knowledge

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

I'm a big stupid history nerd.

There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

Never be afraid to ask when you don't understand. It sounds like a little thing, but awful things have happened, international incidents have flared, and markets have collapsed just because people couldn't make sense of what was being said. They didn't ask 'why?' because they thought it would make them look stupid.

I wasn't the best student. I wasn't stupid, but I wasn't paying a lot of attention.

Every business I don't know, if I spend enough time - a couple of months - I will know a lot. I know quite a lot about football now. I know the value of players, and we won't do stupid things.

I'm not a stupid man.

Can we agree there are no stupid questions? Probably not. But let's try anyway.

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

You can fix a lot of things, but you cannot fix stupidity.

'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.

People's ignorance really pisses me off. Stupidity is when you can't help it -ignorance is when you choose not to understand something.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

Your knowledge remains limited if you just listen to your songs but you grow as a singer when you listen to other singers' work - their style, accent and modulation. You end up absorbing new things.

If you had asked me growing up what a stylist does or what a magazine editor does, I would have had no clue - how do you research something like that when you are a first-born child of an immigrant who only grew up knowing doctor, engineer, and lawyer as careers?

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

Humility, we say, is very important because we feel humility means the ability to listen, the ability to respect another's opinion and to find that everybody around you in some subject knows more.

I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.