Quotes About Knowledge

If you're paying attention and you've been a good listener, you learn every day.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

Ignorance is a menace to peace.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.

People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do.

Man, a mere inhabitant of the earth, cannot overstep its boundaries! But though he is confined to its crust, he may penetrate into all its secrets.

I do not think, like people say, that I am a guru or I know everything.

Every man, woman and child knows about Mugabe, but people say, 'Mogae, who is that?'

In the Champions League I'm no expert. Pep is the expert, he's won it twice as a manager.

Pep Guardiola had some great clashes with Klopp in German football. They know each other well.

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.

I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!

I can only perceive the royal family as an entity historically. I think I know more about the royal family from the Plantagenets in the 14th Century than the modern family.

We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses.

I think there is pressure when it comes to the perceived notion that if you are woman in sports you're there for your looks. You cannot try to look nice on TV and also know what you're talking about.

Ninety-nine percent of people who drive cars are not car experts.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.