Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!"

Orville Wright, Inventor

Orville Wright

"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding"

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Scientist

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me"

George Washington Carver, Scientist

"Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

Neil Armstrong

"Who's to say who's an expert?"

Paul Newman, Actor

Paul Newman

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding"

Ezra Pound, Poet

Ezra Pound

"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"A learned man has always riches in himself"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

Stephen Fry

"Every historian discloses a new horizon"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words, now dead but living and spoken by the English people, a thousand years ago"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning"

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"Human knowledge has been changing from the word go, and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"Reading builds the educated and informed electorate, so vital to our democracy"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"Many admire, few know"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything"

William J. Clinton, President

William J. Clinton

"No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth!"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"There is no complete theory of anything"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life"

Norman Cousins, Author

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

Wilson Mizner

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

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