Quotes About Knowledge

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

You may be able to read Bernard Shaw's plays, you may be able to quote Shakespeare or Voltaire or some new philosopher; but if you in yourself are not intelligent, if you are not creative, what is the point of this education?

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I can quote every single line in 'The Big Lebowski' from start to finish. That's what happens when you see a movie two dozen times.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

I was an altar boy. I could probably quote the Bible from beginning to end.

I need to know everything inside quote marks is true.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

I always learn something from every race.

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

I own a horse and ride, but I don't know racing or betting.

When you're asked to have a CT scan or a nuclear scan, do you know how much radiation that involves? How many of those sorts of scans have you already had? Is it necessary? Is there an alternative? I don't think many people know about that.

Carter G. Woodson

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.

I watched 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark' about 90 times and knew every word.

When you talk to people about their practical life, for example when they're at work, like the rail industry, the RMT members know better than anyone else how to run their industry.