Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species"

Alfred Marshall, Economist

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth"

Thomas Malthus, Economist

"I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"I think education is both using and improving knowledge, and that changes the whole picture"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us"

Charles de Secondat, Philosopher

"If there's information out there, you want it"

Donald Trump Jr., Businessman

"Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the Union on December 28, 1846"

Leonard Boswell, Politician

"The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa"

Jared Diamond, Author

"World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that in the country we stay engaged and we are part of the world"

George Schultz, Public Servant

"I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts"

Felix Adler, Educator

"Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions"

George Cuvier

"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration"

DeWitt Clinton, Politician

"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"I get a sense that we've all been educated into one school of thought. I'm not surprised at all to find among the overwhelming majority of scientists are people who would hold one particular view because that's all they're exposed to"

Thabo Mbeki, Statesman

"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed"

Terry Goodkind, Writer

"And given that there's been probably a ten-fold amount of information about terrorism through the media than there has about climate change; I think that's quite an interesting statistic"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge"

Imre Lakatos, Philosopher

"I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world"

Liberty Hyde Bailey, Scientist

"The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received"

Rudolf Arnheim, Artist

"Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history"

Jared Diamond, Author

"I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons"

Jared Diamond, Author

"You cannot survive if you do not know the past"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

"I think around the world, our agents are the best collectors of information you'll find"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"Mathematics is as old as Man"

Stefan Banach, Mathematician

"And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action"

Shelby Foote, Author

"I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past"

Penelope Lively, Author

"Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center"

Alan Autry, Actor

"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge"

Karel Capek, Writer

"Scholars will argue with each other about everything"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

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