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"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets"
Heraclitus, Philosopher
"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead, but not buried imagination"
E. E. Cummings, Poet
"I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most"
Elvis Presley, Musician
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say, This we know"
T. S. Eliot, Poet
"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead"
Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian
"I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent"
Paul Simon, Musician
"Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Be able to recognize many of the major constellations and know the stories behind them"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic"
Johan Huizinga, Historian
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it"
Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write"
John Adams, President
"Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about"
E. T. Bell, Mathematician
"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write"
David Herbert Lawrence, Writer
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them"
Isaac Asimov, Scientist
"There's nothing you can know that isn't known"
John Lennon, Musician
"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher
"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all"
Pericles, Statesman
"Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it"
Mary Astell, Writer
"I wish life was not so short, he thought. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about"
J. R. R. Tolkien, Novelist
"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings"
Scott Adams, Cartoonist
"Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know?"
Gertrude Stein, Author
"Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why"
Bernard Baruch, Businessman
"The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog"
Alexis Carrel, Scientist
"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less"
Arthur Miller, Playwright
"I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity"
Bryant H. McGill, Author
"Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two"
Moliere, Playwright
"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater will be his confusion"
Herbert Spencer, Philosopher
"Grammar, which knows how to control even kings"
Moliere, Playwright
"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are"
E. O. Wilson, Scientist
"Lack of knowledge... That is the problem"
W. Edwards Deming, Scientist
"You should not ask questions without knowledge"
W. Edwards Deming, Scientist
"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population"
Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian
"I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing"
Will Smith, Actor
"Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind"
Martin H. Fischer, Author
"Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use"
Andrea Dworkin, Critic
"It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty, that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man"
Richard P. Feynman, Physicist
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