Quotes About Knowledge

I've never been a business person, nor have I ever pretended to understand the first thing about it.

If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand.

I feel a lot of people working in the media don't know how much of a student of the game I am. They don't know that if we play on a Saturday, the first thing I do when I get home is watch the other games, watch the other leagues.

It's not like I'm an Internet geek or anything - I'm of an age where the Internet is not the first thing I think of when I need to find something out.

The hardest thing in the world is to know as much about any team as a good, solid fan in that area.

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

The history of the past, a hundred years from now, won't be the history of the past that we learned in school because much more will have been revealed, and adjectives we can't even imagine will have been brought to bear on what we did learn in school.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world.

In many ways, a degree in the history of ideas is the ideal training for an aspiring writer.

I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

I've always been interested in exploration and the history of exploring the world, but it seems like we've found everything now.

It's very important to me that I at least know the history of the music.

I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

We'd all like to be certain of what we know, but I think the most important question is to ask yourself do you really know what you know?

So in a strong sense with Java it was a learning process for us - there was some tech learning - but the most important learnings were social or behavioral things.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Well, the most important thing in investing is to know what you're investing in, and if you're confident in the outcome, it's important to stay true to your position.