Learning & Education: Knowledge Quotes

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"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything"

Joseph Brodsky, Poet

"I didn't know a damn thing about style"

Michael Bergin, Actor

"Nothing can be found in the intellect, if previously has not been found in the senses"

Michael Servetus, Scientist

"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings"

Geena Davis, Actress

"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote"

Ben Nelson, Politician

"We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars"

Robert Burton, Writer

"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections"

Daniel Boone, Explorer

"There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

"If you cannot explain something in simple terms, then you don't understand it"

Alex Hormozi, Entrepreneur

"Knowledge is not something to be acquired from without; it must be drawn from within"

Clement of Alexandra, Theologian

"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals"

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Historian

"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"To know is to control"

Scott Reed, Writer

"I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come"

Karl Jaspers, Psychologist

"Search not to find things too deeply hid; nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid"

John Denham, Politician

"Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist"

Jim Lehrer, Journalist

"Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist"

Hermann Ebbinghaus, Psychologist

"But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia"

Ezra Stiles, Clergyman

"Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental indigestion"

Etty Hillesum, Lawyer

"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know"

Bill Bryson, Writer

"The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness"

Marilyn Ferguson, Writer

"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries"

Gilbert Murray, Diplomat

"Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar"

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Statesman

"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world"

Jerry Pournelle, Journalist

"We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"To live effectively is to live with adequate information"

Norbert Wiener, Mathematician

"Did you know hemp is a natural fiber?"

Tia Carrere, Actress

"The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things"

Simon Travaglia, Author

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