If you are conscious to yourself that you possess more knowledge upon some subject than others of your standing, reflect that have had greater opportunity …
She had been warned by a friend, Elizabeth Shaw, that her son had become a little too self assured.
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
I think nobody knows more about comic book characters than Seth Green. I thought I knew a lot, and he leaves me in the dust.
We must know more about our adversaries than they know about us.
Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?
There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.
The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil
The President regards the Japanese as a brave people; but courage, though useful in time of war, is subordinate to knowledge of arts; hence, courage without such knowledge is not to be highly esteemed.
I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
You can go to the Internet and know more than your mom in two seconds. It's crazy how fast teenagers have knowledge and information these days. So, I think it's harder to say, 'Your father and I know more than you.'
To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
I know a lot more about the 'Halo' universe than the fans do.
The idea that you know more than the intelligence community knows, it's a little like saying, I know more about physics than my professor.
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
I have to know more than everyone else in the room. In a roomful of men, I have to know more than them.