Quotes About Knowledge

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.

I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

From now on, we're home schooling you. Whatever we don't know, you don't know. When did the Korean War start? I don't know, and neither do you!

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

The further one goes, the less (he realizes he) one knows.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

This one commercial said, "Forget everything you know about slipcovers." So I did, and it was a load off of my mind. Then the commercial tried to sell slipcovers, but I didn't know what they were!

I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That's so funny.