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"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, with loads of learned lumber in his head"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man"
William Penn, Leader
"History is a race between education and catastrophe"
H.G. Wells, Author
"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace"
George Santayana, Philosopher
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"
Will Durant, Historian
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul"
Will Durant, Historian
"The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future"
Lord Acton, Historian
"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
"As the biggest library, if it is in disorder, is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge, but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life"
Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer
"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught"
George Savile, Politician
"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so"
Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer
"I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world"
Margaret Mead, Scientist
"The ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness"
Simon Bolivar, Leader
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand"
Frank Herbert, Writer
"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice"
Horace, Poet
"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet
"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out"
William Wordsworth, Poet
"Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing"
Thomas Huxley, Scientist
"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing"
Tom Stoppard, Dramatist
"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it"
William Hazlitt, Critic
"You can never learn less, you can only learn more"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety"
Jorge Luis Borges, Poet
"An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind"
Mason Cooley, Writer
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours"
John Locke, Philosopher
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet
"Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power"
Horace Mann, Educator
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives"
James Madison, President
"Unless we remember, we cannot understand"
E. M. Forster, Novelist
"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know, I forget"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details"
Heraclitus, Philosopher
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