Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

When I’m really interested in something, I get superfocused on that. And I can spend hours upon hours not getting tired of reading about it and still be interested to learn more about it.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Even more amazing than modern technology is our opportunity to access information directly from Heaven, without hardware, software, or monthly service fees.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I think I’ve got wiser.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The more you know the less you need to say.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

I don’t follow politics much.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.