diverse knowledge Quotes

Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

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

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

I don't like the establishment. I like the diversity of knowledge, and I'm going to use all that I can to help get President Trump re-elected again in 2020.

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

People have interesting things to say and you're only going to learn from different people's experience and knowledge.

Education should be as broad as man.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.

I like learning new stuff, also, and I can sit there and watch shows on National Geographic and the Discovery Channel or stuff like that and learn something new. I think once you've gone through such a long stage of learning one thing, you're not as well-rounded as you'd like to be.

I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.

I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

You want to know a little about a lot.

I think the more you have a generalist perspective, I think sometimes the more you can kind of see through the forest and the trees. And when it gets a little bit cloudy, you know, have some sense of, "Well, maybe this might happen or maybe that might happen." So I really am a big believer in liberal arts education. I think it's better - particularly in these kind of uncertain times - to know a little bit about a lot of things as opposed to being expert in one thing.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.

Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.

Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.

A scholar has to know a little of everything.

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.