Quotes About Knowledge

I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.

I'm a school teacher, and later on, well past my formal education, I became very interested in science.

I didn't have much of a formal education myself.

I am neither a lawyer nor a tax expert, in fact my formal education ended when I finished high school.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

I don't mind arguing back and forth with people who have actual information.

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.

We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could.

Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.

Fortunately, the world is full of people with information compulsion who want to tell you their stories. They want to tell you things that you don't know. They're some of the greatest allies that any writer has.

Sure, nobody will make a fortune if we figure out why the Big Bang happened. But just about everyone would like to know.

I divide the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those that know they've been compromised and those that don't yet know.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

I fought a long time ago in Canada, I fought a Croatian guy, I don't remember his name, but there I had a size advantage. At the end, I explained to him about cutting weight. He didn't know about weight-cutting, so I explained to him, and I was bigger than him at that time.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

Not enough people really think about the founding of our country, how it all began and what its really about. They don't even teach it in schools any more.

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

Frank Shamrock knows what he's doing.

Especially when I first really started to work with Kenneth and Franklin, who had been in space already. And so, they were able to talk about space and tell me a few things about how things would really happen.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

Yes, I think I have some good knowledge of India. I have lots of Indian friends in the chess fraternity.

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