Broad Knowledge Quotes

You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines, and use them routinely - all of them, not just a few. Most people are trained in one model - economics, for example - and try to solve all problems in one way. You know the old saying: to the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. This is a dumb way of handling problems.

To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.

I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

I've always been interested in many different things.

It's very useful to have a good grasp of all the big ideas in hard and soft science. A, it gives perspective. B, it gives a way for you to organize and file away experience in your head, so to speak.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.

I'm very simple. I have to be. I'm not very smart. I start broad, then go deep where I'm interested.

I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

That’s the key to new and good ideas; they come from having a very broad and multidisciplinary range of interests.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.

By having a little bit of knowledge about many different things, it enables me to talk to people about a subject that they would not ordinarily think I could talk about. It's a lever for me, I suppose.

I was forever reading outside of the field as well as in it.

Read much, but not many books.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.