Quotes About Knowledge

'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

I went to school for folk music back when I was a teenager and learned hundreds of songs.

I was a big history buff as a teenager.

When you're a teenager, there are more things you don't know than you know, and more people that you haven't met than you have met. I felt that way when I was a teenager, and I think maybe, with my films, I'm targeting grown-ups who remember that feeling.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

Epistemology has always been affected by technologies like the telescope and the microscope, things that have created a radical shift in how we sense physical reality.

I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.

In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Television was essentially my college.

The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.

Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

Teaching is really very, very important. I always tell my students that you should find an opportunity to teach. When you teach others, you teach yourself.

One of the first things I tell people is, if you want to learn about investing, you want to open an account and make real investments because that's when it becomes real.

I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring.

I read a lot, but in comparison to my family, it's nothing. I keep telling them, 'I'm the illiterate of the family.' My grandfather used to read five books at a time.

My favourite lessons in college were when we would have a professional teach us, or when we went out of the classroom for the day. You take in so much more when someone who's been there and done it is telling you.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

I want a news service that tells me what no one knows but is true nonetheless.

The core advantage of data is that it tells you something about the world that you didn't know before.

The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

Every technology, every science that tells us more about ourselves, is scary at the time.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.