Quotes About Knowledge

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.

I've always wanted to answer all the questions that nature posed for us.

I didn't know what kinds of questions to ask in mathematics. In physics, I could see there were things that were known and things that weren't.

On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

I think you go through a stage where you're constantly asking questions because you're learning every day, and when it's like that you need to bring results with it.

By looking at the questions the kids are asking, we learn the scope of what needs to be done.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

I don't read a lot of books but love magazines like 'Psychology Today.' It's great for getting quick facts.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Definitely, in any teaching situation, there are the clueless students; then there are the ones who get it a little quicker.

Curating isn't just a matter of taste. It involves building up real knowledge of the items in your care. As the world gets quicker, and shallower, and bite-sized, retaining our ability to take a deep dive into history is more and more important.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

In general, I'd rather ask questions and look stupid than keep quiet and not understand what someone's talking about.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people. I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.

I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.

I've been using a computer for quite some time, and I don't understand everything.