Quotes About Knowledge

I'm not sure I have the knowledge, the intelligence or the sensitivity to direct a 'Love Story' or a 'Fiddler on the Roof.'

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

You aren't going to show me something I haven't seen. Nobody can bring something to me that I don't already know, not in boxing. That's where I've mastered my trade, I can't talk in other fields.

I seek out people that are experts in their fields and see how I compare with them and if I can hold my own.

You can't fight for your rights if you don't know what they are.

Me, I don't know anything. Don't even know fighters in my own division.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

My understanding of religion and science is that they're both arrogant schools of thought, and whether they acknowledge it or not they continually broadcast the idea that they have the world figured out. And what they don't know, they have a theory for which is probably correct. It feels like that shrinks the world, rather than expands it.

As soon as I figured out I didn't know anything about music, I was OK. It's when I thought I could learn something that I was in trouble.

I have, compartmentalized in my head, one file for the NFL, one for college basketball and one for golf. They contain everything I've ever read, watched and learned.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

I don't know anything about the film industry. I thought I knew films, but apparently, I don't know films or people!

Film industry people don't read books.

I actually went to film school, but I didn't like it. I'm basically self-taught.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I'll definitely say that, before film school, I didn't have much of a film-history background. I didn't know much about classic cinema.

I always try and learn as much as I can from different departments on a film set.

I'm not that educated in filmmaking.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.