Quotes About Knowledge

There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.

Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If people are informed they will do the right thing. It's when they are not informed that they become hostages to prejudice.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Assuming if there's such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

You can't know what you don't know. You can't know about things you have yet to discover.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

More information is always better than less. When people know the reason things are happening, even if it's bad news, they can adjust their expectations and react accordingly. Keeping people in the dark only serves to stir negative emotions.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.

I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn't common knowledge. Why wasn't he on the front covers of my history books? He's one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows.