Quotes About Knowledge

Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient points are.

How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge; not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.

All young people can benefit from practical business knowledge but especially those from the poorest parts of the country.

You can go to school and learn and that works for some people. But I think the best kind of learning is practical and learning on the job.

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

Direction has taught me everything, even acting, as when you're on the field, on the practical grounds, you do everything.

Becoming an effective security professional requires more than knowing how to deploy and configure technology. It requires combining security theory with practical, hands-on experience.

I have a lack of practical skills. I can't mend anything or do anything manly; I don't understand how anything works.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

Shakespeare is practically our only link with the classic and the past. The future of education has much to do with whether we will be able to cling to him or not.

What you know is what you know, both culturally and practically, and you use it to the greatest effect you can.

I'm practically a historian.

I had a teacher/director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where I trained for a year, named Mary Duff, who taught me practically everything I know.

What is common sense isn't common practice.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.