Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"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

"In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

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

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I wish I knew what I know now before"

Rod Stewart, Musician

"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it"

Clifford Geertz, Scientist

"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything"

Edgar R. Fiedler, Economist

"Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"It is one of the great tragedies of the US that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government"

James Bovard, Author

"If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"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

"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Nothing is more common than for men to think that, because they are familiar with words, they understand the ideas they stand for"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I think in America we have to get back to being the best educated general citizenry in the world and make sure we do not lose our lead in research, if we're to have a leadership position in the world"

John Glenn, Astronaut

"It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"Knowledge is the life of the mind"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes"

Phil Crosby, Author

"My own curiosity and interest are insatiable"

Emma Lazarus, Poet

"When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was, unfortunately, rare with me"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge"

Frederick Sanger, Scientist

"We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance"

Jan Masaryk, Diplomat

"Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena, have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"From a strictly articulatory point of view, there is no succession of sounds"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated"

Walter Annenberg, Businessman

"I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"America is the most inventive country in the world because everybody has access to information"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions"

Levi Strauss, Businessman

"Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

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