Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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

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

Norman Cousins, 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

"Every historian discloses a new horizon"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it"

Herbert Simon, Scientist

Herbert Simon

"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

"I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from TV or from school"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"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

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

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

"We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium"

Friedrich August von Hayek, Economist

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

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

Wilson Mizner

"Knowledge is the prime need of the hour"

Mary McLeod Bethune, Educator

"I have no use for intellectuals. They get lost in abstractions and forget the real world"

Wilhelm II, Statesman

Wilhelm II

"Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

Helen Gurley Brown

"What happened after publication of our paper was that, for the next 40 years, people said, all right, we now know the answer to the capital structure question under ideal conditions"

Merton Miller, Economist

"The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind"

John Maynard Keynes, Economist

"Many admire, few know"

Hippocrates, Scientist

"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

"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

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

Bobby Scott, Politician

"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

"I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"Because a known fact is better than an unknown fact"

Mark Spitz, Athlete

Mark Spitz

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

Jean Piaget, Psychologist

"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

"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

Christopher Dawson

"A learned man has always riches in himself"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"There is no complete theory of anything"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

Clifford Geertz

"The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then"

Stokely Carmichael, Activist

Stokely Carmichael

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