Quotes About Knowledge

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

No matter how much you know, you can always learn more and be a good listener.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

I fall for all those lists of 100 books you must read, and go out and buy most of them.

There's a very low amount of data literacy around people.

There's a great lack of financial literacy and understanding in this nation, even among college-educated people.

There's definitely a value in being literate.

Mv mother was so literate and literary.

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.

For me, 'rich' isn't having lots of money; rich is having loads of things in your head.

When you get to college, they're never teaching you how to start a credit line or get a loan on a car, things of that nature.

I don't know anything about politics or lobbying in the film world.

When you're with a person for a long period of time, you get to know what they can and can't do.

My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

I have never, ever been embarrassed by saying, 'I don't know.' I think maybe that's part of that longevity of my career. Sometimes I have to say, 'I don't know but I'll find out. Call me next week.'

From working on heavily researched films such as 'Four Lions' and 'In the Loop,' I knew that research in itself is nothing and it's everything.

I watch 'News At Ten' and 'Loose Women' and that gives me all I need to know.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low.