Quotes About Knowledge

Some of the best navigators in the world are London taxi cab drivers. They have to learn 25,000 streets and how to get from one to the other.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

Taxpayers can go online and find out more about the way their government works than ever before.

My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

You can always spot the professionals. Taylor Swift, she knows what she's doing.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

There's always something that you can learn and something you can teach.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it.

No one ever taught me and I can't teach anyone. If you can't explain it, how can you take credit for it?

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

I wouldn't call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers. And I do watch TV, but only informative programmes like the news and documentaries.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Teach and practice, practice and teach - that is all we have; that is all we are good for; that is all we ever ought to do.

Everything I know and everything I got, I had to teach myself.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

It just seems like it would be kinda cool to be able to actually teach kids important stuff.

I always feel that my films ought to teach me something about life.

Just like some day, say, 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

I teach a course in screenwriting at Columbia, but I've never taken a course and I've never read a book about it!

My dad was the guy who wanted to teach a man to fish. He was very, very curious, right up until the day he died. He was insatiable for information. He was the pursuit of awesome.