Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He He glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal"

Ali ibn Abi Talib, Clergyman

"Power is the by-product of understanding"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty"

Jacob Bronowski, Scientist

"An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style"

Alan K. Simpson, Politician

"Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"I'm against ignorance"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"We know next to nothing of what we're going to know in 20 or 50 years"

Leon Kass, Educator

"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"Individuals and nations owe it to themselves and the world to become informed"

Paul Harris, Lawyer

"The States which form the northern border of the United States, westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast, include an area several times larger than France, and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare"

John Moody, Businessman

"I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source"

Brigham Young, Leader

"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it"

Maimonides, Philosopher

"Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor"

Jeanette Winterson, Novelist

"I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in"

Bjork, Musician

"I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began"

John Henrik Clarke, Author

"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices"

Frederick II, Royalty

"Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"

Jacques Lacan, Psychologist

"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility"

Robin Morgan, Activist

"Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing, at times, to reflect on those facts"

Clarence Day, Author

"To a historian, libraries are food, shelter, and even muse"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"Knowledge is never too dear"

Francis Walsingham, Celebrity

"To this day, the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, Northern Africa and, above all, in Spain"

Carroll Quigley, Writer

"Every clarification breeds new questions"

Arthur Bloch, Writer

"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge, even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

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