Quotes About Knowledge

Knowing the law is not much help for an advocate. In fact, it's a bit of a disadvantage, cramps your style.

I think all literature should be read as comparative literature. And I think we should write out of what we know, but in the expectation that we can be changed at any moment by something we have yet to discover.

I did not discover literature of any kind until I was about eleven, or ten.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it.

I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.

I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.

I like discovering stories where I'm laughing and I'm learning. It's like, 'How was I never taught that in school?'

This is the kind of discovery that resonates.

Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it - you know, even if it's just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it's like the greatest high. It's like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature.

I actually love the Discovery Channel.

My door is open 24 hours. We can discuss things - I don't think I'm a magician or the only guy who knows anything about football.

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.

I definitely dish advice out more than I get it.

You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

People who rooted for me and were impactful in my career knew everything about me. They knew my goals, my likes, my dislikes, what I wanted out of my career.

I probably know everything there is to know about Disney.

I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.

I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation.

You have to, at least from a distance, look as if you know what you're doing, and I can manage that.

So human capital makes ideas, and ideas help make human capital. But still, they're conceptually distinct.

Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.