Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Instead of following one another, the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve"

Roman Jakobson, Scientist

"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes"

John Zorn, Composer

"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I'm a history nut"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer, through fear, refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"Mathematics is written for mathematicians"

Nicolaus Copernicus, Scientist

"If the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

"Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"I think people in general have neglected to learn about history"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing"

Christopher Walken, Actor

"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go"

Timothy Leary, Educator

"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood"

Hu Shih, Philosopher

"It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"Scholarship, except by accident, is never the measure of a person's power"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions"

Ken Burns, Director

"Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed"

Henry Reed, Poet

"The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it"

Carlo Goldoni, Playwright

"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it"

Vita Sackville-West, Novelist

"A mind grows by what it feeds on"

J. G. Holland, Novelist

"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"History is everything that has ever happened"

Stephen Ambrose, Historian

"I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America, you have to know about the Civil War"

Ken Burns, Director

"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

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