Quotes About Knowledge

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

Personally, people know themselves very poorly.

I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Whatever you say about popular culture, people like people who know things, who are experts, and it doesn't particularly matter what they look like.

My knowledge of popular music more or less ends in 1972.

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

We know about Portuguese football, we know the Portuguese culture.

I am 33 years of age. I have 500 or 600 appearances. I know what I have done in football. I know how hard I have to work to be in this position.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.