Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history"

Pierre Salinger, Public Servant

"They're calling their Washington sources at the NRC or in Congress, and they're not hesitating to give their opinion, but their opinion, frankly, in those early days was not very well informed"

William Scranton, Politician

"I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S"

Eduardo Galeano, Journalist

"As a species, we are always hungry for new knowledge"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything"

Bill Condon, Director

"One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp, who worked with Kinsey"

Bill Condon, Director

"Two hundred or more years ago, most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it!"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common"

Ernest Thompson Seton, Leader

"I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality"

Paul Watzlawick, Psychologist

"It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future"

Brian Tracy, Author

"The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life"

Ernest Renan, Philosopher

"One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society"

Jean-Francois Lyotard, Philosopher

"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better"

Ryan Holiday, Author

"So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other of the different branches of science will explain the difficulty"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know"

Bill Parcells, Coach

"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma"

Joyce A. Myers, Businessman

"I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports"

Jim McKay, Journalist

"It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"In the Atlantean period, there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet"

David Icke, Athlete

"There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information"

David Strathairn, Actor

"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun"

Elmer Davis, Journalist

"To be successful in life, what you need is education, not literacy and degrees"

Munshi Premchand, Writer

"I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new"

Joe Sacco, Journalist

"But there were highs as well as lows, it was as though they said everybody was picking on the man who had more practical real life experiences than the whole batch of them put together"

James Stockdale, Soldier

"I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock"

George Chapman, Poet

"Unless you know a lot more about something than I do, I am not really that interested. I have too much information already"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man, this type of intellect is found"

Edward Thorndike, Psychologist

"My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs"

Cleveland Abbe, Scientist

"Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

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