Quotes About Knowledge

Jim Rohn said, "If you read one book every month about your industry, in ten years you'll have read 120 books. That will put you in the top one percent of your field.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Being an "expert" in anything means doing the basics exceptionally well, so Reece started with the fundamentals

We are the accumulation of our past experiences. How we channel those experiences and knowledge into wisdom as we move forward is critical.

One of the first rules of interrogation was to only ask questions to which you already knew the answers.

I like to read I"m ten and a half.

An intelligent man [doesn't] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods

The first rule of trading—there are probably many first rules—is don't get caught in a situation in which you can lose a great deal of money for reasons you don't understand.

It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.

You teach what you know... but impart who you are.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

Another thing I've been trying to do on my walks is to know what I'm looking at, when I'm looking at it. I want to be smart. When I walk down the sidewalk I see about a hundred different kinds of bugs and all I do is point at them like a caveman and say 'Ugh, look, a bug,' but I know each one of them must have a different name and a different reason why and how it came to be on the planet, and I don't know any of that stuff.

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The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

my drug was knowing. Knowing what was possible. Knowing how far it could go.

I'm not going to tell you about this. I refuse to. There are things you know you'll die before telling, things you know you should have died before ever having seen. I watched and saw.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Once we've learned enough about the universe we will admit to ourselves that we will never know everything.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is simply to release any images and emotions.

The only thing that makes something impossible is ignorance.

All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,

Magic is doing something the other guy can't do. We haven't learned how to do it yet, so it's magic. When we learn how and understand it, it's science.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.