Quotes About Knowledge

Most of the time what I am reading is leadership books, books on the mind and a lot of deep stuff about spiritual stuff and Christian stuff. So most of my free time is spent reading. I try to read 1-to-2 books a month.

Education is freedom.

I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.

Ask Jeeves! Who ever used that thing? College freshmen to find out who Goethe was - that's it.

The thing most frightening about Donald Trump is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and doesn't seem to care about what he doesn't know, and as a result of that, he doesn't know what the consequences of his actions might be.

I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

My parents used to call me 'The Little Frog,' because whenever they asked how I knew something, I'd say 'read it,' which sounds a bit like a frog croak.

Science is our last and greatest frontier.

We need education across the board on all fronts.

I started my career in Hollywood, where I learned the rumors were true - having success there really was dictated by how who you knew, not what you knew. I grew frustrated by the fact that careers could be made and broken by relationships alone.

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.

Education is for growth and fulfillment.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

We can't afford not to fully fund education.

There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

I think people love fundamental science.

Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry.

Look, fundamentally the more you know about someone, the better you can communicate with them at a human level, or a mass-communication-advertising level.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

Some just don't know the fundamentals of the game. And a smart player can contain guys like that.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

Oh Senator, how could you be so cruel – and so ignorant of the true facts." "Facts are facts, Mrs. Byerson….There are no such things as true facts, for then we'd have to have false facts, wouldn't we.

Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.