Quotes About Knowledge

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

In my long life, I have known some great economists, but I have never counted myself among their number nor walked in their company.

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

I never believed the anchorman should be the know-it-all. And I try to communicate that to the audience. While I have some knowledge from my years of experience, what I want to do is walk you through this because we're all walking through this together.

Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel's will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.

The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.

I learned way more in four years at Sprig than four years at Udemy or UC Berkeley.

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

Believe it or not, the best way to put somebody at ease or bring them to a level of trust is to know as much if not more about them than they know about themselves or the organization to which they belong.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

It is better to learn late than never.

I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Though he was not a reader himself, my father understood that reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.

I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.

I know all the books of the Bible.