Quotes About Knowledge

I get a fizzy thing in my brain, like a nice glass of wine, and I want to know facts and I want to understand.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

'Jeopardy!' contestant Ken Jennings' winning streak has been nothing short of remarkable.

There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each year to higher education, are naturally interested in finding out what they are getting for their money.

We're so used to the tests telling me if I'm smart or not. It's telling me if I know the material or not.

Though my parents were professionals and expected me to go to college, they were immigrants from India with no idea about how the admissions process worked in the United States or the importance of standardized tests.

I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.

I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

A Christmas Carol' is one of a few literary works that can be cited as a common cultural reference point, so its a text people imagine theyve read without having done so.

People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch.

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

I appreciate and enjoy mathematics and science and all that side of things. I definitely have that side of me even though I'm not by any means an expert, but I love reading about physics and math and that kind of stuff. I wish I knew more than I did. I mean, I read books written for laymen, not textbooks or anything.

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

Science is cool! But it's easy for that to get lost in textbooks sometimes.