Quotes About Knowledge

The presidency is not an entry-level electoral job.

I learned more in 11 months in running for president than I did in 12 years of school.

President Obama, he's never going to debate me on guns. His knowledge on that issue wouldn't fill a thimble, and he knows it. I would clean his clock, and he knows it.

I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.

You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences of historical ignorance than President Trump.

I've always been a person that thinks nonfiction is more interesting than fiction, I love to read presidential biographies.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

As far as I know, all the presidents know about Area 51. It would almost be impossible for them not to.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

I think people's imaginations are being neutered by the amount of access they can get to information just by pressing a button.

If you don't know your blood pressure, it's like not knowing the value of your company.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

I don't pretend I know everything.

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

I'm not going to pretend to know one more thing than I know.

Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.

I've definitely gotten a few jobs by pretending like I knew what I was talking about.