Quotes About Knowledge

I'm grateful to be in school developing my practice as an actor. In that process, it's difficult to say that you've definitively 'learned' something.

There's a lot in Scientology that develops confidence because there is peace, I think, that I've gotten just to know that what I do know, I do know.

The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.

I think people believe that Bengaluru as a city will be more aware because of its cosmopolitan nature. However, I don't think that is necessarily true. Not many people today are even aware that they may have diabetes.

I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.

I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

I would rather know about different cultures, read about them, and understand them than just blindly follow their rituals. All cultures in India have their own logic.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

I have a very limited knowledge of recording, but the miracle of being able to capture sounds on magnetic tape and the miracle of electricity, and these little magnetic particles, is amazing to me.

I listen to parenting books on tape.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.