Quotes About Knowledge

El saber común se ampliaba, un saber despreocupado y sin consecuencia del que, a diferencia de la escuela, solo teníamos que rendir cuentas en la conversación

Elle écoutait avec attention tous les gens qui parlaient de ce qu'elle ignorait, par curiosité, par envie de montrer qu'elle était ouverte aux connaissances. S'élever, pour elle, c'était d'abord apprendre (elle disait, "il faut meubler son esprit") et rien n'était plus beau que le savoir. Les livres étaient les seuls objets qu'elle manipulait avec précaution. Elle se lavait les mains avant de les toucher.

It is a well-documented fact that pornography as a separate category did not exist until the nine-tenth century, when lawmakers throughout Europe ostensibly sought to protect a predominantly white, middle-class female population from sexually explicit material and - by extension - knowledge of their own sexuality.

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

Does she . . . or doesn't she? . . . Only her hairdresser knows for sure.

Beware the man of one book.

The man who doesn't read hasn't any advantage over the man who can't read.

I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete.

Once the Europeans become interested in you they make it a point to learn everything they can about your personal and professional life.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

It's so important to seek out mentors and knowledge from those who have come before you, and I don't think I would be where I am today, both professionally and personally, without each and every mentor who helped me along the way.

Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I'm a primary care doctor. It doesn't mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.

When we harness the ability to turn connections into data and then into knowledge, we can empower citizens, patients, and professionals to prevent disease, avoid or better manage health crises, and even save lives.

I frequently have scenes that take place in places I've never been or characters who have professions that I know nothing about that I've got to research. But that's what Google is for.

I know myself. I'm not gonna be a mathematician or a professor.

I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor.

I learn more from my kids then I have any professor in all my life.

When I hit 50, I want to go be a professor.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

My parents are professors. My sister is a Ph.D. student. My other sister has a business.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

I was close with some of my old professors.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.