Quotes About Knowledge

I've only seen a handful of short clips of my U.S. Open win. I remember how I did it; I don't need to watch a video.

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

I didn't know much about video games.

Because several 'Titans' characters have been used in video games, I've got royalty checks for six figures. And I had no knowledge of this until I opened the mailbox, because I don't follow the video game world!

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.

'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.

I only had, like, 4 CDs when I was in college, and one of them was the soundtrack to 'Good Morning Vietnam' - that's how much I don't know about music.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.

The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

How careful she always was with books: they had been her companions, her entertainment, and her only window to the outside world.

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

Your only value to me," he said in a low tone, "is your knowledge of Lillian Bowman's whereabouts. If I can't obtain that from you, I'll send you to the devil. Tell me, or I'll choke it from you. And believe that I have enough of my father in me to do it without a second thought.

The only thing Beatrix knows about being circumspect is how to spell it.

Sometimes people you want to believe in will disappoint you. The more you learn about the world, the fewer illusions you'll have.

I'm not as innocent as you might think. I'm very well read.

There's nothing wrong about not knowing something. The stupid people are the ones who think they know everything.

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

We provide proof of a question for which the answer is already known.

is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. That's all, folks. Be safe out there.

He tried to remember, to repeat, to imprint in his brain, Luna's parting words of advice: People don't know what you think they know.