Knowledge Quotes

I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.

Steve Kanaly

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

Seth Lloyd

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Susanne Langer

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

Shannon Miller

Schools still operate as if all knowledge is contained in books, and as if the salient points in books must be stored in each human brain - to be used when needed. The political and financial powers controlling schools decide what these salient point...

Sugata Mitra

I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.

Shaquille O'Neal

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

Sally Ride

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

Seth Shostak

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.

Shinichi Suzuki

I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.

Sonia Sotomayor

All my knowledge comes from research.

Stan Sakai

I think in the NFL knowledge is power, and you try to get the knowledge by whatever means.

Steve Sabol

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

Suzanne Somers

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Veil

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Tadao Ando

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Thomas Aquinas

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Thomas Aquinas