Quotes About Knowledge

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The biggest quest to learn anything is curiosity. If you are curious about something, you will go and dig.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Ignorance can be improved; willful ignorance and inaction is inexcusable.

Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama, however, such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.

I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.

By the age of 15, I knew over 40 Hank Williams songs.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

The less one knows, the more he thinks he knows, and the more willing he is to employ any and all measures to enforce his views upon others.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

I think to some degree one of the strengths of the high tech industry is that people are actually willing to tell you things. When I went to Novell, I didn't know how to be a CEO, so I went in and I called all sorts of CEOs I knew. I called in a favor. I wanted to come by and listen to them tell me what it's like to be a CEO.

At any point, the sum total of human knowledge is not, 'Here's the world as it is perfectly,' it's, 'Here's the best we know so far and we're always willing to be proven wrong.'

I want other kids to see the joy in reading and literacy and how, if you read about things, they become so much closer, and if you're willing to put in the effort and time and passion, you can really understand them.

I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.