Quotes About Knowledge

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

I know what I do, I know I can play football, and I know I can talk about it.

I like to play football, read some books, study.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

To get a former player that has been there and has that extra intel. Jose Higueras is a great coach for that and a great person as well.

I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

I watch a lot of badminton, and as a result, I know more or less about the forms of most of the players.

Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.

I'm not afraid of code. I mean, I understand how these things work. I thought that that was the one area where Estonia was playing on a level playing field.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.

I read a lot, all the time, but often I read books for research, or because they're interesting to me in some way, even if they aren't exactly 'pleasurable.'

I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

The book I'm working on next, which will be my fifth, returns to literary history. I really do love literary history, and I have plenty more ideas on it.

I was so fortunate to be raised in a household filled with books and - as you might imagine to be the case in the Bush home - plenty of conversation.