Quotes About Knowledge

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

There can sometimes be this fear among laypeople: 'I don't understand everything in science perfectly, so I just can't say anything about it.' I think it's good to know that we scientists are also confused some of the time.

I know my body perfectly well.

Zico is a great manager and he knows the game perfectly.

To be perfectly honest, I have not watched 'Discovery,' I was ignorant of the fact that it was even coming out. I thought it was another movie coming out.

Value in medicine depends on information - as I said in 'Let Patients Help,' 'People perform better when they're informed better.' It follows that to make patients and families more effective in care, they need to know more.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.

What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

Though all actors do not make good directors, Dhanush is really one of the finest. He knows exactly how to direct an actor to extract the performance the way he wants it. Perhaps that is happening because he is a performer himself.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

I'm inspired by history, different periods.

Nobody knows what really happened in any historical period. There are some periods where we know more than others, though.

I would love to do things that teach me new skills. Like, I don't know how to ride a horse. And not that I need a film or television project to teach me that, but it's one of the perks of being an actor, inhabiting a character who has experiences and a knowledge that I don't.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.