Quotes About Knowledge

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

I don't think there's any substitute for experience.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

There's no substitute for an in-classroom experience.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.

Even the genius asks questions.

Even the genius ask questions.

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

I read for growth, firmly believing that what you are today and what you will be in five years depends on two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

Another approach is to ask the person a substantive question, based on your knowledge of his or her previous employment history. Most importantly, it should be a question you really want to know the answer to.

This kind of machine-based learning is driven by a hunger for knowledge, not by a desire to show off your talent or to "signal" as we economists say.

You can learn something from everything and everybody, especially the elderly.

I never just assume that someone is going to come along and tell me everything I need to know, and you shouldn't either. You have to do your research, boo.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

My brother has his swords, I have my books. A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.

You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.

If the word is not the thing what the hell is it? Without the word you have no way of experiencing anything at all. Without the word you are not separate from whatever you are looking at or what is going on inside of you. The word is the knowledge. Without that knowledge you don't even know whether it is pain or pleasure that you experience, whether it is happiness or unhappiness, whether it is boredom or its opposite.