Quotes About Knowledge

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.

My mother was an English teacher and she imbibed the habit of reading, and encouraged me to participate in debates and the like.

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

People want to know about what's going on with what's in the universe, what are particles like, what are the basic rules of nature. It's a lot of curiosity out there.

We ought to teach kids more about the Big Bang and entropy and particles. Every high school graduate should know that everything in the universe is made of a handful of particles. That's not a hard thing to know. But that's not what's emphasized.

A good director is not an expert in anything in particular. A good director just knows a little bit about everything.

I don't see myself as a particularly expert angler.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

I found dozens of albums I loved every year of the early 70s and more in the late 70s and more still in the decades since, partly because I knew more about music by then and partly because there were more to choose from.

By the way I also don't know anybody, so I would have to Google almost every single partner of mine - other than Ian Ziering because I used to watch '90210.'

My partner doesn't read. He's not illiterate - he just chooses not to read - and I love reading. I'm obsessed with reading.

I know every part of their lives. I know about their animals; if they've got a dog, I know its name. My players love their dogs. I know about their partners; I know if they go to the cinema - it's the detail you need to be successful. If they have an ice cream, I know about it.

It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Sometimes I think it would be nice to share everything I've got with somebody - and sometimes I think I'm very lucky to have the bathroom to myself. But I feel it would be nice to pass on my knowledge. Perhaps because I haven't got children - one wants to educate somebody.

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.