Quotes About Knowledge

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Good council has no price.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

The primary motivation for me is to learn.

I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.

In years of interviewing presidents, prime ministers and chief executives all over the world, I can remember only a handful of times in which a leader has said: 'I don't know' in answer to a question. Perhaps everyone I have ever interviewed knows everything about everything, but I doubt it.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.

Once the principle is there, that cells have the same genes, my own personal belief is that we will, in the end, understand everything about how cells actually work.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

That's why I don't want to know the questions before, when I give interviews whether TV or print. I don't want to prepare myself for what I will answer.

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.