Quotes About Knowledge

I can't say I follow politics extremely closely, but I'm definitely aware of what's going on in the world.

The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.

Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

Bottom line - cosmetics are used to accentuate an existing sex difference in facial contrast. This does not mean that women engage in this beautification practice with knowledge of this sexual dimorphism.

We can see what works in one part of the world and one market, and we can share that knowledge and expertise with markets that are facing challenges.

Without facts you can't have truth.

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Science is facts.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Facts are often complicated.

The secret to discovery is to never believe existing facts.

I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.

One of the big failures for the big auto companies is that even the CEO and the top management often don't understand design and manufacturing. As a CEO, you have to make decisions; you need to have knowledge.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

Most learned of the fair, most fair of the learned.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to be familiar with as many sectors of the working world as you can be so you'll be better at your creative job anyway.