Quotes About Knowledge

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.

In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not "know your audience", it's "respect your audience, and really know your content".

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

I have great respect for directors who know what they're doing.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

A lot of players know I've been around 13 years and this is my second lockout. I got a lot of respect. I know what's going on both for the league and the union.

There is only one way to receive intellectual respect, and that is to earn it. A degree doesn't mean anything, as there are too many maleducated morons running around with them to impress anyone.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

I have no faith at all in believers, because they are so far from the truths! Have respect only to those who are close to the truths!

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The best thing for being sad ... is to learn something.

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom.

nobody ever said smart people had to be sane, and nobody ever said that intelligence has to be paired with wisdom. It's all too possible for one to exist without the other." "Too