Quotes About Knowledge

Since I was a kid, I feel most confident when I'm reading.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

I think people get confused about who Merlin is. It's not his age that makes him: it's wisdom, and wisdom is not necessarily linked to age. Definitely not in the same way in the world of 'Once Upon a Time.'

Financial products are the last thing in the world that should be confusing.

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

The first light of human consciousness and the world's first civilizations were in Africa.

Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.

You can't build any kind of organization if you're not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

Get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals.

I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.

Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings.

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for themselves an idea of the world in which they live. But we alone question our surroundings.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

I don't really know any survival skills of any kind.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.