Quotes About Knowledge

I think that the public is in and the public is in big, and the public is not, I don't think going to pull out because the public knows what I said about 1987.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

When people claim that they know the formula or the pulse of the public... it's rubbish, the truth is that no one knows.

I think ignorance is not bliss at all. It just makes me want to punch somebody.

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their opinions as facts and argue about the endless minutia of a broken Washington, D.C., instead of arming you with real knowledge and new ideas.

Oh, my kids know me, and they know the Rammstein's history. It's hard to shock them. I got punished, in the sense that they're really big Coldplay fans.

People shouldn't be punished for their wisdom.

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

A pupil is a great resource.

Consumers have the right to know important information about the service they are choosing to purchase and/or use.

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

There's so much free material on the Internet you can learn from, and some people are pure self-starters: they pick up computers and teach themselves everything. Certainly there are millions of people like that. But at the same time, I think it's a pretty small percentage of the population.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I feel eager to learn as much as I can, not only about my craft but the world and the cosmos and how we got here and whether there's any purpose to our being here.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.

As an actor, I had the most power than I've ever had before, because I was able to create and arc and pursue that idea fully, because as every new director that came on, no one knew 'Hanna' like I knew 'Hanna.' That is something that I knew inside me.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.